Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal (Handheld Biographies, 3, Band 5) - Softcover

LeFanu, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912766523 ISBN 13: 9781912766529

Verlag: Handheld Classics, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

When Sarah LeFanu was researching her 2003 biography of Rose Macaulay, she kept a detailed journal of her research trips and her processes as a biographer. She argued with herself over what to include, what to pursue, and what to leave behind. Her immersion in her research led to Rose intruding in her dreams, and fantastical imaginings of what Rose would say or do, at each fork in the road. Dreaming of Rose is a remarkable record of the art of biography, and the search for another woman’s life. Research trips to Varazze in Italy to look for Rose’s childhood, and to Trabzon in Turkey to find traces of Rose's most fampous novel, The Towers of Trebizond, were remarkably intuitive ventures that found treasures in unexpected places. Dreaming of Rose is also a memoir of a woman juggling the demands of teaching, research and writing while patching together a living. LeFanu’s work on Rose was squeezed in between many other commitments and responsibilities: she wrote for the BBC and taught creative writing and English literature. Suffused with the tensions and dramas of everyday life, and the necessity for intellectual integrity, this is an important memoir of women and writing.

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Sarah LeFanu is a British biographer and arts critic, and a descendant of the Victorian Irish Gothic novelist Sheridan Le Fanu. She is the author of Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (2020), S Is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream (2012), Rose Macaulay: A Biography (2003), and In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (1988), which won the MLA Emily Toth Award.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Handheld Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1912766523
• ISBN 13: 9781912766529
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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