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Essays from Epilogue 1935-1937 (Lives & Letters: the Millennium Graves)

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You may never have read interaction between two brilliant writers such as you can read here in the daring work of Laura Riding and Robert Graves. Here is new focus striven for with excellence in the foreground.

This book is long overdue and should be in anyone's library who is interested in the unforgettable women of the 20th century, of which Laura [Riding] Jackson was certainly the prime literary example. Her life's work in essays alone remains unforgettable to me.

If you are willing to accept the challenge of finding out why she was unlike the rest, you might find great reward, true originality. But I warn you. She was interested in only the most serious of readers. You might have to slow down to digest it. Like reading Kant.

Then avail yourself of her own story, so touchingly conveyed in her authorized biography by Elizabeth Friedmann, A MANNERED GRACE. Women came a long way in the 20th century, and no one topped Laura Riding for chutspah and the love of language as the force of truthtelling, honed by a sense of spiritual challenge.