Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939
by:
Katie Roiphe (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299064812 (1299064817)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Dial Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
Relationships,
Marriage
A multiple biography, looking at seven literary “marriages” in the Bloomsbury set (London literati of 1910-1939). At least one of each couple had other relationships with the knowledge and usually consent of the other. It includes HG Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Vanessa Bell, Ottoline Morrell and Rad...
Uncommon Arrangements seems a simplistic title at first, until the reader begins to realize how very complicated and uncommon the subjects are. Though the era she focuses on overlaps with WWI, some of the unions author Katie Roiphe details may seem shocking or odd, even to modern readers. There is...
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