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A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846

內容簡介

內容簡介 Wine and dine with Victorian London’s literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo …June 1846. As London swelters - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glamorous coterie of writers and artists indulge in decadent parties. With her ringletted ‘face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiancé, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams the Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles suffer a marital crisis. But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, their lives begin to spiral around the tragedy …One of the first group biographies, inspired by the "Pop Artists ", Althea Hayter’s glorious A Sultry Month was a groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965 - and as radical today. "An experiment in the art of biography that has been never bettered. " — Guardian "A form which was so new as to lack a name … A masterpiece. " — Anthony Burgess"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Alethea HayterAlethea Hayter was born in Cairo in 1911, where her father was a legal advisor to the Egyptian government. After his death when she was 12, the family returned to England in reduced circumstances, but Hayer won a scholarship to study History at Oxford in 1929. She became a journalist before being recruited as a 'demi-semi-spook' by the Postal Censorship department during the war; she was then posted to Greece, Paris and Belgium with the British Council. Hayter's first book, Mrs Browning (1962), won that year's Royal Society of Literature Award. It was followed by the much-admired A Sultry Month (1965), Opium and the Romantic Imagination (1968), Horatio's Version (1972), A Voyage in Vain (1973) and The Wreck of the Abergavenny (2002). Hayter was appointed OBE in 1970 and died in 2006, aged 94.Francesca WadeFrancesca Wade has written for the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Paris Review, Guardian, New Statesman, Frieze and Prospect. She has been the editor of the White Review and is a recipient of a Robert B Silvers Grant for Work in Progress and a 2020-21 Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Her first book, Square Haunting, was a group biography of five trailblazing interwar women, longlisted for the Baille Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her next book is Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.

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