| The Furies of Marjorie Bowen Contributor(s): Tibbetts, John C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1476677166 ISBN-13: 9781476677163 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2019046387 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (0.97 lbs) 235 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose prodigious output included stories of history, romance, and the supernatural. As Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda writes in his Foreword, Bowen may be the finest British woman writer of the uncanny of the last century, a view that echoes the high regard of cultural historian Edward Wagenknecht, who called her a literary phenomenon, one whose best work places her alongside such contemporaries as Edith Wharton and Daphne du Maurier. Publicly acclaimed--known only by a series of pseudonyms (including Marjorie Bowen)--but privately inscrutable, she was and is a mysterious and complex character. Drawing for the first time upon archival resources and the cooperation of the Bowen Estate, this book reveals a woman who saw herself as a rationalist and serious historian, but also as a mystic and dark enchantress of dread. Above all, through a lifetime of domestic storms and creative ecstasy, Bowen worked tirelessly as both a professional writer and a consummate artist, always seeking, as she once confessed, to find beauty in dark places. |
