Publication

2017 - Sussex Academic Press

Language

English

Word Count

93,250 words, Guess

Page Count

373 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCCT788.A425S68 2017

Description

"Fresca is detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making - how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworth's initial goal was to discover how Francesca's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. The result was to be immediately drawn in to the company of prominent artistic figures of the period"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Fresca - a Life in the MakingSussex Academic Press2017

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