Judith Chernaik

Once there were four women, three of them sisters, who fell under the spell of a revolutionary poet. Their shared vision of communal love left a trail of destruction, including two suicides and abandoned children. This book is based on the lost papers of the Shelley circle.

It fell open at Erich Fried who is dead right 'The things I found, But they'll scatter them again, to the four winds, as soon as I am dead', first verse of the poem 'A collector'.

From Wordsworth to Fleur Adcock celebrating the LondonIsOpen campaign. A twelve-panel leaflet.

Moving and erudite--a highly accomplished and engaged portrait of the ill-fated Romantic composer.