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Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath
- Title
- Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath / Helen Southworth.
- Author
- Southworth, Helen
- Publication
- Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-7142 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Fresca is detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making - how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworth's initial goal was to discover how Francesca's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. The result was to be immediately drawn in to the company of prominent artistic figures of the period"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-360) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7142
- ISBN
- 9781845198213
- 1845198212
- LCCN
- 2017002727
- 40027329190
- OCLC
- 957955698
- Author
- Southworth, Helen, author.
- Title
- Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath / Helen Southworth.
- Publisher
- Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-360) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027329190
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7142