Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections - Couverture rigide

Spalding, Frances

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9781860467462: Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections

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ISBN 10 : 1860467466 ISBN 13 : 9781860467462

Editeur : Harvill Press, 2001

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438p large hardback with illustrated purple dustjacket, small tear to front endpaper, otherwise as new

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Revue de presse :

"A sympathetic, fastidious and beautifully produced biography...a fascinating portrait of an unusual woman...exquisite" (Robert McCrum Observer)

"This stylishly produced biography is an objet d'art in its own right, while Spalding's prose adopts the economy of the illustrations: austere, pragmatic and wholly devoid of ostentation" (Guardian)

"Moving biography" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Fine study of Darwin's grand-daughter and her role in the Bloomsbury movement" (Observer)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and biographer. Her books include acclaimed biographies of the painters Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Stevie Smith. She has written a history of the Tate Gallery and was the editor of Charleston magazine. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art.

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