Description
| Product ID: | 9781803991894 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mothers of the Mind |
| Subtitle: | The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath |
| Authors: | Author: Rachel Trethewey |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Collected biographies, Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Collected biographies, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors – for the first time this book tells the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. ‘The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very early days of her writing … So, to have more insight into this particular aspect of my grandmother’s early life is very valuable.’ Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie’s grandson Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors. For the first time this book tells in full the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara Miller and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their relationships with their daughters were exceptional; they profoundly influenced the writers’ lives, literature and attitude to feminism. Too often in the past Virginia, Agatha and Sylvia have been defined by their lovers – Mothers of the Mind redresses the balance by charting the complex, often contradictory, bond between mother and daughter. Drawing on previously unpublished sources from archives around the world and accounts from family and friends of the women, this book offers a new perspective on these iconic authors. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-14 |