A look back into the publication, Women's Wear Daily, by seven former editors.
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Review of Thomas Hardy:'The community of critics and readers interested in Victorian studies can always expect Barbara Hardy to come up with an interesting perspective on texts we all thought had been read thoroughly into familiarityàThe beauty of this book is also that a whole range of people could read it, from A level students to Hardy specialists.' NATFHE
"Hardy combines an examination of Eliot's life with an analysis of the author's works. The six chapters are concerned with Eliot's family life, her travels in England and abroad, the men she loved, her acquaintances and friends, her use of images evoking illness and death, and how certain objects, words, and metaphors are repeated throughout her novels and letters. There is also a useful outline of Eliot's life and writing at the beginning of the book. Hardy's insights will be especially useful for readers very familiar with most if not all of Eliot's fiction, as the critic goes from book to book in her pursuit of the connection between biography and the creation of the works. Recommended." - Morris Hounion, Library Journal, November 2006
(Morris Hounion Library Journal )Reference to "A new biography of Victorian novelist George Eliot" and author's name. (South Wales Evening Post (Swansea) )
"...Hardy has been Eliot's critic for nearly half a century -- indeed, the book is subtitled A critic's biography -- yet she flouts convention, declaring her book an "anti-biography"...examples of how Eliot recast her relatives and friends as characters, [is] rendered here with tact and insight. What [this book] it arrives at is a glimpse of Eliot's consciousness. Hardy attains this not by distilling the novelist's ideas and narratives, but by delving into Eliot's mind, often through her rapt, uncompromised letters. Being George Eliot, it seems is a complicated and surprisingly extreme affair..." - Esther Schor, TLS, October 12, 2007 (Esther Schor Tls )
"We come away from this biography with a new, full sense of Eliot, or at least with a new sense of a possible Eliot, more intimately known...She writes with the authority of someone who knows all the texts intimately, who cares passionately both about those texts and about the life of a real woman who took the name George Eliot. This is a biography that only a major critic and scholar could have produced. One might argue about details or wrestle about method, but one cannot resist either the textual authority of its arguments or the fascinating and entirely embodied woman, George Eliot." - George Levine, Victorian Studies, Autumn 2007
(George Levine )"Barbara Hardy's earliest important essay on Eliot was published over a half a century ago ("Moment of Disenchantment in George Eliot's Novels," Review of English Studies 19, July 1954: 256-64). Her new George Eliot: A Critic's Biography is the first volume of Continuum's "Writer's Lives" series which prescribes a treatment of "life and works." This approach might be tedious, but not by Hardy. She can assume the case for Eliot's art has long been since made, a lion's share of it by Hardy herself (Novels of George Eliot: A Study in Form (1959), and in The Appropriate Form (1964)). Thus, her deliberately specifying title, "A Critic's Biography," certifies that the art and life intersections Hardy chooses are important ones to Eliot's art. Offered as an introduction to its subject (the intention of the Continuum series), it will serve more the pleasure of readers who no longer need an introduction to Eliot." - John R. Pfeiffer, George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2008 (John R. Pfeiffer )
"Hardy combines an examination of Eliot's life with an analysis of the author's works. The six chapters are concerned with Eliot's family life, her travels in England and abroad, the men she loved, her acquaintances and friends, her use of images evoking illness and death, and how certain objects, words, and metaphors are repeated throughout her novels and letters. There is also a useful outline of Eliot's life and writing at the beginning of the book. Hardy's insights will be especially useful for readers very familiar with most if not all of Eliot's fiction, as the critic goes from book to book in her pursuit of the connection between biography and the creation of the works. Recommended." - Morris Hounion, CUNY, for Library Journal, 2006
"A self-declared, 'rever[sal] of conventional critical biography' ... this book is an incisive and deeply absorbing meditation on the life and work of a woman with a preternatural sensitivity to the shaping effect of form." - Rhian Williams, British Association for Victorian Studies
Reference to "A new biography of Victorian novelist George Eliot" and author's name.
South Wales Evening Post (Swansea)
"…Hardy has been Eliot’s critic for nearly half a century – indeed, the book is subtitled A critic’s biography – yet she flouts convention, declaring her book an “anti-biography”…examples of how Eliot recast her relatives and friends as characters, [is] rendered here with tact and insight. What [this book] it arrives at is a glimpse of Eliot’s consciousness. Hardy attains this not by distilling the novelist’s ideas and narratives, but by delving into Eliot’s mind, often through her rapt, uncompromised letters. Being George Eliot, it seems is a complicated and surprisingly extreme affair…" - Esther Schor, TLS, October 12, 2007
"We come away from this biography with a new, full sense of Eliot, or at least with a new sense of a possible Eliot, more intimately known…She writes with the authority of someone who knows all the texts intimately, who cares passionately both about those texts and about the life of a real woman who took the name George Eliot. This is a biography that only a major critic and scholar could have produced. One might argue about details or wrestle about method, but one cannot resist either the textual authority of its arguments or the fascinating and entirely embodied woman, George Eliot."—George Levine, Victorian Studies, Autumn 2007
“Barbara Hardy’s earliest important essay on Eliot was published over a half a century ago (“Moment of Disenchantment in George Eliot’s Novels,” Review of English Studies 19, July 1954: 256-64). Her new George Eliot: A Critic’s Biography is the first volume of Continuum’s “Writer’s Lives” series which prescribes a treatment of “life and works.” This approach might be tedious, but not by Hardy. She can assume the case for Eliot’s art has long been since made, a lion’s share of it by Hardy herself (Novels of George Eliot: A Study in Form (1959), and in The Appropriate Form (1964)). Thus, her deliberately specifying title, “A Critic’s Biography,” certifies that the art and life intersections Hardy chooses are important ones to Eliot’s art. Offered as an introduction to its subject (the intention of the Continuum series), it will serve more the pleasure of readers who no longer need an introduction to Eliot.” - John R. Pfeiffer, George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2008
Primarily of interest as an accessible guide to readers and scholars who are relatively new to Eliot, Hardy's study offers a comprehensive, reliable and individual perspective on a major figure in nineteenth-century prose. (, ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Barbara Hardy is a poet, autobiographer and novelist, as well as a critic whose books include three on George Eliot and three on Dickens. She is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.
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Stories from a Newspaper that was an International Icon,
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This review is from: Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era - Inside Women's Wear Daily (Paperback)
There are a few newspapers that reach the status of a must read. And there was a time when Woman's Wear (as it was called) was right up there with the Wall Street Journal, or Variety. Each of these is basically a specialty newspaper that covers one industry. Woman's Wear obviously covered the Rag Trade. From some time in the early 1950's to the end of the 1960's Woman's Wear was a must read. Today it is still a big paper, but nothing like it was.
This book is the personal recollection of seven of the editors that made Woman's Wear what it was. They held verious positions on the paper and tell the stories with wit and a tenderness about the paper they obviously loved. Most of the stories, like the stories we remember of our own career are short with unexpected endings. The things that make a good story. And good stories make a good newspaper or even a book. This is not a serious tome, but a delightful read about a time now gone.
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A look back upon the past fifty years of the women's fashion industry,
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This review is from: Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era - Inside Women's Wear Daily (Paperback)
Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era: Inside Women's Wear Daily is a look back upon the past fifty years of the women's fashion industry, as detailed by seven former editors of the Women's Wear Daily newspaper. Women's Wear Daily lasted nearly 100 years because of its mission - to present readers with the facts to aid their business decisions - and was an upstanding "must-read" for designers, manufacturers, trend makers, and marketers due to its integrity and keen eye for detail. Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era is packed cover to cover with fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes perplexing moments in the ever-changing world of what's hot and what's not. Highly entertaining, and especially recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the demands of the fashion industry.
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