Seize Your Copy Antonia White: A Life Designed By Jane Dunn Released As Publication
Beyond the Glass, More infamously, White's three unsuccessful marriages, her affairs, and her tortuous relationship with her two daughters and their subsequent feud over the editing of White's diaries after her death, have been extensively chronicled.
Biographer Jane Dunn, who has also covered other literary livesMary Shelley in Moon in Eclipse and sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf in A Very Close Conspiracyplunges with relish into White's complex world.
She portrays White as a highly talented writer whose Catholicism and fatherfixation contributed much to her low selfworth, problematic relationships and recurring bouts of madness.
Despite this, White, unusually for a woman in thes, held down a lucrative job as an advertising copywriter, became a highly respected translator her translations of the novels of Colette are among the best, and moved within an intensely artistic circle of friends which included Djuna Barnes, David Gascoyne and Dylan Thomas.
White's allegedly low opinion of women was compounded just before her death, with the newly launched Virago publishing house choosing Frost in Mayas its first rediscovery.
The continuing republication of White's novels and her astonishingly frank diary have captivated new generations of readers, Jane Dunn's skilful, intelligent biography ensures that this interest will not abate, Catherine Taylor
The contrast with sitelinkthis book was painful, nearly, I loved this book. An interesting person with an interesting life, A biography of a writer who despite her problems was able to write classic novels about her life, In parts a very sad story, Nice selection of photographs. Jane Dunn is a leading biographer, the author of Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley, A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Wolf, and Antonia White: A Life.
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens was published in the spring ofand spent seven weeks in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list.
A fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature, Dunn lives near Bath with her husband, the linguist and writer Nicholas Ostler, Her most recent book is Read My Heart, .