Charlotte Mew - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007142749 ISBN 13: 9780007142743

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2014

Synopsis

Charlotte Mew was a poet with a formidable reputation. Outwardly, she also was a dutiful daughter living at home with an ogre of a mother. However, proprieties had to be observed and no one could know that they had no money, that two siblings were insane and that Charlotte was a lesbian.

About this title

About the Author:

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the `Book of the Year'. It won America's National Book Critics' Circle Award. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.

From Library Journal:

First published in London in 1984, this biography unveils the life, personality, and art of the almost-forgotten English poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928), whose poetry impressed such contemporaries as Hardy, Woolf, Sitwell, and Pound. Fitzgerald brings Mew to life through accounts of the poet's interactions with her colleagues. By interrelating Mew's work and life experiences, Fitzgerald comments, and allows Mew to comment, on an inner struggle intensified by insanity, poverty, sexual frustration, and the death of loved onesa struggle that ends with suicide. This work is not only a study of Mew, the individual and poet, but of the literary climate of the time. A selection of Mew's poems is included.Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Lib., New Brunswick, N.J.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007142749
• ISBN 13: 9780007142743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336