And So Did I - Hardcover

Whitaker, Malachi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856355186 ISBN 13: 9780856355189

Publisher: Carcanet Press, 1987

Synopsis

On the eve of World War II, the author, a sensitive young woman struggles to keep her love and imagination alive

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Whitaker recalls that although she wrote many short stories in the early part of the century, she was savagely self-critical and allowed few of them to be published. The Crystal Fountain, a collection of her stories, appeared in 1985. In this diary, the title drawn from Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, a woman of unflinching integrity and gritty compassion is revealed. Largely self-educated, one of 11 children of a bookbinder, she describes her love affair with words. In her reflections and homely vignettes, we are given a picture of the life of an English country woman in the '30s. Whitaker ruminates on her companionate marriage, her two adopted children and her ingrained thriftiness. Hers is a voice of conviction speaking with wry humor and unsentimentality.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0856355186
• ISBN 13: 9780856355189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148