Rosamond Lehmann, one of the most distinguished British writers of this century, published eight acclaimed works of fiction. Her only autobiographical work, The Swan in the Evening, recreated first the child she was and the experiences that made her the woman she became, moving on to tell the story of her beloved daughter Sally and the tragedy of her early death at the age of 24. Then, tentatively and persuasively, Rosamond Lehmann relates the totally unexpected, overwhelming, and scrupulously recorded psychic and mystical experiences she underwent following that terrible loss. The meaning of such events, their messages of hope and comfort to others, she then, through a letter to her grandaughter, passes to us.
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'A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf' - Cyril Connolly 'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' - Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire, the second of the four children of R.C. Lehmann. She was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridge and one of the most distinguished British novelists of this century.
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I was born during a violent thunderstorm; and since the date was the third day of February, this disturbance of the elements struck the popular imagination with dramatic force, as being, in the strict sense of the word, phenomenal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Davis, Isle of Wight, Dusty Answer, George Eliot, War God New!
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I was born during a violent thunderstorm; and since the date was the third day of February, this disturbance of the elements struck the popular imagination with dramatic force, as being, in the strict sense of the word, phenomenal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Davis, Isle of Wight, Dusty Answer, George Eliot, War God New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Dusty Answer (Virago Modern Classics) by Rosamond Lehmann on 5 pages
- Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot on 5 pages
- The Fourfold Vision by Jane Sherwood on page 126
- The Country Beyond: THe Doctrine of Re-Birth by Jane Sherwood on page 126
- The Perfect Stranger (Lives & Letters) by P. J. Kavanagh on page 96
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- L'oeuvre de Rosamond Lehmann: Sa contribution au roman feminin (1927-1952) (French Edition) by Marie-Jose Codaccioni on 14 pages
- Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics: The Vagaries of Literary Reception by Wendy Pollard on 8 pages
- Invitation to the Waltz (Virago Modern Classics) by Rosamond Lehmann in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Women's Fiction Between the Wars Pb by Heather Ingman on page 41, and Back Matter
- The Sun Sign Reader (Astrological Profiles) by Joan Revill on page 45, and page 46
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