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The swan in the evening : fragments of an inner life
- Title
- The swan in the evening : fragments of an inner life / Rosamond Lehmann.
- Author
- Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990
- Publication
- London : Collins, 1967.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 3825.45.389 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Collins (Firm : London, England), publisher.
- Description
- 156 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Rosamond Lehmann's only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life-from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter. Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters. Writing from the distance of decades, she reveals why no adult would ever apologize to a child, shares thoughts on her "first conscious memory," and discusses the taboo subjects of "birth, death, physical and sexual functions." Later, she recounts the tragedy that rocked her world as a mother. A blackbird with a broken neck appears as a harbinger of doom: A few hours after finding the bird, Lehmann receives a phone call from her son telling her that her twenty-four-year-old daughter, Sally, is dead. Wracked with grief and desperate for answers, Lehmann, a non-believer, finds solace in spiritualism."--Google Books.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- LCCN
- 67111160
- OCLC
- ocm02948110
- 2948110
- SCSB-173485
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library