Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence

Cooper, Artemis

ISBN 10: 184854927X / ISBN 13: 9781848549272

Published by John Murray, 2016

About this Item

376pp Plates.

Seller Inventory # 018214

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence
• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184854927X
• ISBN 13: 9781848549272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. With Photos
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women

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Synopsis

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) wrote novels, including the popular Cazalet Chronicles, about what love can do to people, but the romantic happiness she sought always eluded her. Based on interviews with Howard, her family and friends, this sympathetic biography reveals the ‘dangerous innocence’ that led her into a troubled marriage to Kingsley Amis, charts her attempts to make sense of her life through writing, and illuminates the literary world in which she lived. Slightly off-mint.

About the Author

Artemis Cooper is the author of a number of books including Cairo in the War, 1939-1945, Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David and, most recently, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. With her husband, Antony Beevor, she wrote Paris After the Liberation, 1945-1949. She has edited two collections of letters as well as Words of Mercury, an anthology of the work of Patrick Leigh Fermor; and, with Colin Thubron, she edited The Broken Road, the final volume of Leigh Fermor's European trilogy.