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Four French Holidays: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France de Anne Hall

Four French Holidays: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France

Autor Anne Hall
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2023

Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fift ies, Rumer Godden basedThe Greengage Summeron her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield- tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led toStill WatersandThe Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novelThe Scapegoatwas the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely refl ected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-
married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.

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ISBN-13: 9781911397274
ISBN-10: 1911397273
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 22
Dimensiuni: 3962 x 5944 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Unicorn Publishing Group

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  , "This is a very original literary study of the work of four British writers who, though still remembered today, are not as celebrated or read as much as they deserve to be. Through the prism of visits to France in the novels and stories of these writers, Anne Hall explores the delicate and subtle interplay of relations between those two nations in fiction. It is elegantly written, illuminating and informative. There is some fascinating original scholarship here, but, above all, Four French Holidays is highly entertaining and tempts you to go and read for yourself (if you haven’t already) or re-read the works under consideration." Reggie Oliver, nephew and biographer of Stella Gibbons ,

Notă biografică

Anne Hallwas born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She studied English and French, and after taking a PhD in French literature, she moved permanently to France. She has taught at the universities of Tours and Aix-en- Provence. Fifteen years ago, her research into the Du Mauriers’ French ancestry led her from Provence back to the Centre-Val de Loire region, where she is still living and writing.