Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A Catalogue of Rare and Fine Books
Author: George M. Chandler (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich. First-third Supplement. 1889-1903: 1894-1898
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich. Supplement
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Contents: 1. 1889-1893.--2. 1894-1898.--3. 1899-1903.
William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod”
Author: William F. HalloranPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800643292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp’s Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp’s life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties. The biography illuminates his wide network of close male and female friendships, through which he developed advanced ideas about the place of women in society, the constraints of marriage, the fluidity of gender identity, and the complexity of the human psyche. Uniquely this biography reveals the autobiographical content of the writings of Fiona Macleod, the remarkable extent to which Sharp used the feminine pseudonym to disguise his telling and retelling the complex story of his extramarital love affair with a beautiful and brilliant woman. The biography illuminates not only the talented and conflicted William Sharp, but also the cultural landscape of Great Britain in the late-nineteenth century. From late Pre-Raphaelitism through the "yellow nineties” and on to the excesses of the early twentieth century, Sharp dabbled in all the movements that comprised what some have called the Age of Decadence.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 2: 1895-1899
Author: William F. HalloranPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783748729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
What an achievement! It is a major work. The letters taken together with the excellent introductory sections - so balanced and judicious and informative - what emerges is an amazing picture of William Sharp the man and the writer which explores just how fascinating a figure he is. Clearly a major reassessment is due and this book could make it happen. —Andrew Hook, Emeritus Bradley Professor of English and American Literature, Glasgow University William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.