Author: Elinor Wylie Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza
Author: Elinor Wylie Jennifer Lorn
Author: Elinor WylieJennifer Lorn
Author: Elinor WyliePublisher:
ISBN: 9780849229862
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Languages : en
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Jennifer Lorn
Author: Elinor (Hoyt) "Mrs. William Rose Benet" WyliePublisher:
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Languages : en
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A Private Madness
Author: Evelyn Helmick HivelyPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elinor Wylie's body of work - four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928 - has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences. This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of the twenties. Described by contemporaries as an icon of the age, Wylie was illustrative of the tone and mores of the notorious decade in which her poems, novels, and Vanity Fair articles were written. Her friendships with such notables as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and William Rose Benet and the events she endured - her father suffered breakdowns and a brother, a sister, and her first husband fell victim to suicide - colored her life and often mirrored the temper of the twenties. Her independence, unconventional behavior, narcissism, interest in the occult, the frantic pace of her life, and her problem with alcohol are evident in her novels and her poems. Her work embraces the escapism of the era in which
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Author: Jennifer Lorn: a Sedate Extravaganza, Etc
Author: Elinor Hoyt WYLIEJennifer Lorn - A Sedate Extravaganza
Author: Elinor WyliePublisher:
ISBN: 9781528715560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Jennifer Lorn" is a 1923 historical novel by Elinor Morton Wylie. This classic novel will appeal to all lovers of the English language and constitutes a must-read for fans of Wylie's work. Elinor Morton Wylie (1885-1928) was an American novelist, poet, and poetry editor of "Vanity Fair" magazine between 1923 and 1925. Her life was one of scandal, and she gained notoriety for her numerous marriages and affairs. Other notable works by this author include: "Incidental Numbers" (1912), "Nets to Catch the Wind" (1921), and "Trivial Breath" (1928). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an essay by Martha Elizabeth Johnson.
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