Emily Holmes Coleman (1899–1974)
Autor de The Shutter of Snow
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Emily Holmes Coleman
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1899-01-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1974-06-13
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Oakland, California, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Tivoli, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Oakland, California, USA
Paris, France
Tivoli, New York, USA
England, UK - Educación
- Wellesley College
- Ocupaciones
- Diarist
novelist - Relaciones
- Goldman, Emma (boss)
Barnes, Djuna (friend)
Day, Dorothy (friend) - Organizaciones
- Hayford Hall Circle
- Biografía breve
- Emily Holmes was born in Oakland, California. In 1920, she graduated from Wellesley College and in 1921 married Lloyd Ring Coleman, a psychologist. In 1926, she and her son moved to Paris, where she got a job as society editor for the Paris Tribune. Emily Holmes Coleman also worked for a year as Emma Goldman's secretary. Although Emily's papers reveal her to have been a prolific writer, her only published works were some articles for small magazines and her autobiographical novel, The Shutter of Snow (1930). However, historians and literary critics are still interested in the diaries she kept in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s. They reveal her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Emily Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country house, Hayford Hall. Emily wrote about John Ferrar Holms, Antonia White, Dylan Thomas, Phyllis Jones, George Barker, and many other friends and acquaintances. In 1944, Emily Holmes Coleman converted to the Roman Catholic faith and her life became focused on religion. She developed friendships with Dorothy Day and philosopher Jacques Maritain, and lived in a number of Catholic communities.
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- Miembros
- 187
- Popularidad
- #116,277
- Valoración
- 4.0
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- ISBNs
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By sally tarbox on 26 Dec. 2011
Format: Paperback
Set in an American mental hospital in the 1920s, this is the story of a young woman suffering a bout of insanity following the birth of her child. Written in the third person, yet simultaneously as if by the patient herself, it tells of everyday life; interchanges with the staff and patients, activities in the hospital, and in paragraphs of poetic prose takes us inside the mind of Marthe.
The title refers both to the snow that features throughout as Marthe looks out of the window; and of course to her state of mind. A brilliant attempt to describe mental illness, Coleman was prompted to write this following her own time in such a hospital.… (más)