A biography of gertrude stein, and four novels, nellie without hugo, dancing in the dark, november, and the furies, which was published after. As she did in such previous, highly acclaimed works as dancing in the dark, the late hobhouse 19481991 draws freely on her personal story to create this. Janet hobhouses final testament is beautifully written, deeply felt, and above all utterly. Janet hobhouse 1948 february 1, 1991 was an american novelist, biographer and editor. Janet hobhouse s final testament is beautifully written, deeply felt, and above all utterly alive. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. A selection of the lost books club an exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, the furies confronts the claims of. A selection of the lost books club an exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, the furies confronts the claims of family and the lure of desire, the difficulties of independence, and the approach of death. Bett and attaches herself to this new, loving, heroic presence, a freespirited artist with a younger lover. The work is a thinly fictionalized family memoir of an improvident but glamorous matrilineage living largely on their wits on the edges of manhattan life throughout the course of the twentieth century. Elisa segrave remembering janet hobhouse lrb 11 march 1993. The furies is a fairly standard account of a young womans relationship with her troubled mother and intellectual and sexual comingofage, and while its lyrical selfa janet hobhouse is a beautiful writer theres an immodest loveliness to her prose thats reminiscent of elizabeth bowen or rebecca west but elevating this book to novel.
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