Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879

ISBN-13: 9780198183518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str.

Robert Gittings; Jo Manton

Opis

This acclaimed biography of Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's daughter Allegra, draws on her vivid letters and journals to portray a women of talent and resilience making her way in nineteenth-century Europe.

Recenzje

a glorious wealth of material ... enables the women of the past to speak for themselves ... a superbly readable life

O autorze

The late Robert Gittings won prizes for John Keats: The Living Year (W.H. Smith Literary Award 1969); Young Thomas Hardy (Christian Gauss Award 1975); The Older Hardy (RSL Heinemann Award, 1979, James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1979); and with Jo Manton for Dorothy Wordsworth (Southern Arts Literature Prize, 1987). Jo Manton is author of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and with Robert Gittings The Second Mrs Hardy (1981) and Dorothy Wordsworth (OUP, 1987; pb Oxford Lives, 1988).