Christina Hardyment
Autor de Aventuras del sargento Lamb;
Sobre El Autor
Christina Hardyment is the author of more than ten books on literature and social history, including Writing Britain: Wastelands to 'Wonderlands and The World of Arthur Ransoms, She is also the editor of Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology.
Créditos de la imagen: Mug shot for the Oxford Literary Festival, 2015.
Obras de Christina Hardyment
Obras relacionadas
The Arthur Ransome Society : transcripts from the literary weekends (1993) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1946
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Oxford, England
South Africa (1951-1953) - Educación
- University of Cambridge (Newnham College) (history)
- Ocupaciones
- film editor
schoolteacher - Relaciones
- Hauge, Eiliv Odde (father)
Griffith, Tom (former husband) - Organizaciones
- The Arthur Ransome Society
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 24
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 915
- Popularidad
- #28,031
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 16
- ISBNs
- 48
If there’s an oddness about this book, it is that the chapters tend to be more about the lives of the various authors and their attitudes than about the fictional houses created in their novels. That said, each chapter reveals new glimpses of what fueled the imagination of these writers. Equally engaging for the reader are the numerous color illustrations and photographs of jacket covers, authors, and occasionally specific rooms that provided inspiration for various settings.
The thing about books like this is they tend to be left quietly on the shelf as a sort of reference book, the kind one only dips into occasionally. There is a chronological order imposed as an organizational approach but the chapters don’t otherwise need to be read in any linear fashion. So where the chapter covering works by Vita Sackville-West might be skipped in one mood, in another mood, you can read it at another point and feel inspired to learn more about Knole, the country house appearing in [The Edwardians]. (Used copies of that novel as well as Sackville-West’s history of Knole are now en route to me.)
From a personal perspective, I don’t share the author’s fondness for [Cold Comfort Farm] and I don’t quite follow the logic that the author used when she decided to include [Uncle Tom’s Cabin] in this collection – the only American title selected. Ostensibly, Stowe’s novel provides an example of a Christian household at risk but Hardymen might just as readily substituted Hiram’s Hospital from Trollope’s [The Warden]. That novel (from roughly the same period) also hinges on ethical consideration of those living on the edge.
Still, as a whole, the book is a pleasant means of touring homes (large and small) that live in our memories.… (más)