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Kathleen and Frank : the autobiography of a family / Christopher Isherwood.
- Title
- Kathleen and Frank : the autobiography of a family / Christopher Isherwood.
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
- ©1971
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR6017.S5 Z5 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 510 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm
- Summary
- "It is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through letters and Kathleen's diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change--Queen Victoria's funeral, Blériot's flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland--the period that shaped Isherwood himself. As a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents' lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern."--Amazon.com.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780374180973
- 0374180970
- LCCN
- ^^2015935185
- OCLC
- 927490838
- SCSB-10669096
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library