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Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life / David Deirdre

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David, Deirdre, 1934-
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Cover; Pamela Hansford Johnson: A WRITING LIFE; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Note on Naming; Note on Editions; Prologue: Becoming a Novelist; Precious Dylan; The Writing Life; 1: The Rise; Henry Irvingś Chandelier; Riding Up Piccadilly; Disgracing Clapham; 2: Haunted by the Thirties; A Deepening Twilight; Remaining on the Left; A Eulogy for Bruges; 3: Writing With Every Nerve; Laleham; London; The Slow-Waking World of England; Troubled by the Flesh; A Settling Place; 4: Snow; Frozen; Balancing Guilt; Learning from Proust; 5: Breaking Free; Venice., Marrying CharlesA Long Way from Clapham Common; `Oh, My Paddington! My Bethnal Green!;́ Reasserting Dickens; `My Books Are My Children;́ 6: A Professional Novelist; Seizing the Pen; A Country of Her Own; One Hand Out of the Fire; The Road to `Skipton;́ 7: Abroad; Travelling Writers; Mrs Iago; A Dotty Novel; 8: Besieged; Heaving Mightily at the Winch; A Shrewd and Knavish Sprite; Being Agnes Wickfield; Murder-Haunted Crescents; 9: Elegies; Social Castration; Dispersed Are We; Not a Lady Novelist; No Words for the Horror; 10: The Halting Shadow; Twelfth Night; `Another Deft Lady Snow Job́, and The SeasideLiving Now; 11: The Orange Chair; The Great Anodyne; Husbands; Guilt; Notes; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1: THE RISE; CHAPTER 2: HAUNTED BY THE THIRTIES; CHAPTER 3: WRITING WITH EVERY NERVE; CHAPTER 4: SNOW; CHAPTER 5: BREAKING FREE; CHAPTER 6: A PROFESSIONAL NOVELIST; CHAPTER 7: ABROAD; CHAPTER 8: BESIEGED; CHAPTER 9: ELEGIES; CHAPTER 10: THE HALTING SHADOW; CHAPTER 11: THE ORANGE CHAIR; Bibliography; WORKS BY PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON; Novels; Plays; Uncollected Short Stories; Non-Fiction, Miscellaneous; Recordings; Other Works; Acknowledgements; Index.
Summary
This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous relationship with Dylan Thomas, to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C.P. Snow. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life.
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9780191843280 (electronic bk.)
0191843288 (electronic bk.)
9780191045912 (electronic bk.)
0191045918 (electronic bk.)
9780198729617
0198729618
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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