Love's Civil War _ Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie _ Letters and Diaries _ 1941-1973

Bowen, Elizabeth; Ritchie, Charles' Glendinning, Victoria (eds)

ISBN 10: 1847372139 / ISBN 13: 9781847372130

Published by Simon & Schuster, London, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love's Civil War _ Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie _ Letters and Diaries _ 1941-1973
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847372139
• ISBN 13: 9781847372130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
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About the Author

Biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist, Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages. Her acclaimed biographies include Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, published in 1977; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981), which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize; and Rebecca West: A Life (1987). Both Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) and Trollope (1992) won the Whitbread Biography Award. Her latest biography is Leonard Woolf (M&S, 2006). Glendinning is also the author of three novels: The Grown-Ups (1989); Electricity (1995); and Flight (M&S, 2004), a novel of passion and betrayal set in the world of international business.