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A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 de Alethea Hayter

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846

Autor Alethea Hayter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2022
Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).
Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo ...
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One of the first group biographies, inspired by the "Pop Artists", Althea Hayter's glorious A Sultry Month was a groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965 - and as radical today.
"An experiment in the art of biography that has [been] never bettered." -- Guardian
"A form which was so new as to lack a name ... A masterpiece." -- Anthony Burgess
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ISBN-13: 9780571372294
ISBN-10: 0571372295
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 133 x 213 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Notă biografică

Alethea Hayter was born in Cairo in 1911, where her father was a legal advisor to the Egyptian government. He died when she was 12 and they returned to England in reduced circumstances. She won a scholarship to study History at Oxford in 1929 and then worked as a journalist, as well as in Postal Censorship during the war. She was then posted to Greece, Paris, and Belgium with the British Council. Her first book, Mrs Browning, won the Royal Society of Literature Award in 1962, and was followed by A Sultry Month (1965), Opium and the Romantic Imagination (1968), Horatio's Version (1972), A Voyage in Vain (1973), and The Wreck of the Abergavenny (2002). She was on the board of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres, and the Society of Authors' management committee, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. She was appointed OBE in 1970 and died in 2006, aged 94.