The swan in the evening;: Fragments of an inner life [Hardcover]

Rosamond Lehmann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1968

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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Review

'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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World; First Edition edition (1968)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006BUVGG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,568,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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