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Hermione Lee. A House of Air
A House of Air. Selected Writings. Penelope Fitzgerald
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION by Hermione Lee
EDITOR’S NOTE
JANE AUSTEN Emma’s Fancy. An introduction to Emma
WILLIAM BLAKE The Unfading Vision. Blake, by Peter Ackroyd
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talking Through the Darkness. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804—1834, by Richard Holmes
SARAH ORNE JEWETT The News from Dunnet Landing. Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories, edited by Michael Davitt Bell
GEORGE ELIOT The Will to Good. An Introduction to Middlemarch
Not Herself. George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography, by Frederick R. Karl
MRS OLIPHANT The Heart and Soul of Carlingford. I. A Fighting Life
II. A Small Town and an Unseen World
III. The Rector
IV. The Doctor’s Family
V. Salem Chapel
VI. The Perpetual Curate
The Mystery of Mrs Oliphant. Mrs Oliphant, ‘A Fiction to Herself’: A Literary Life, by Elisabeth Jay
THE VICTORIANS Called Against His Will. Father of the Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd
The Need for Open Spaces
In the Golden Afternoon. Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen, and The Red King’s Dream, or Lewis Carroll in Wonderland, by Jo Elwyn Jones and J. Francis Gladstone
Old Foss and Friend. Edward Lear: A Biography, by Peter Levi
The Sound of Tennyson
The June-blue Heaven. Emily Tennyson: The Poet’s Wife, by Ann Thwaite
Twice-Born. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life, by Georgina Battiscombe
WILLIAM MORRIS His Daily Bread. William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry, by J. M. S. Tompkins
Something Sweet to Come. An introduction to The Novel on Blue Paper, by William Morris
‘Whatever Is Unhappy Is Immoral: William Morris and the Woman Question’
ARTS AND CRAFTS Lasting Impressions. The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, by William S. Peterson
Designs and Devices. Rare Spirit: A Life of William de Morgan, 1839—1911, by Mark Hamilton
The Gospel of Joyous Work. The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds, by Fiona MacCarthy
The Grange1
Within a Magic Circle. A review of an exhibition of watercolours and drawings by Edward Burne-Jones, Tate Gallery, 1993
RHYME AND METRE Obstacles. Edward Thomas: Selected Letters, edited by R. George Thomas
The Poetry Bookshop
Miss Lotti’s Story. Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner
A Questioning Child. Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare, by Theresa Whistler
The Consolations of Housman
M. R. JAMES Monty and His Ghosts. An introduction to The Haunted Dolls’ House and Other Stories
THE WORLD OF PUNCH Thin, Fat, and Crazy. The Death of Punch
Evoe’s Choice. Foreword to In My Old Days, a selection of poems by Penelope Fitzgerald’s father, E. V. Knox (‘Evoe’), privately printed by his widow in 1972
Kipper’s Line
YEATS AND HIS CIRCLE A Bird Tied to a String. John Butler Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869—1922, edited by Joseph Hone and abridged, with an introduction, by John McGahern
Too Long a Sacrifice ‘Always Your Friend’: The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893—1938, edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares
Lily and Lolly. The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, by Joan Hardwick
Monsieur Moore of Mayo. A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore, by Tony Gray
NEW WOMEN AND NEWER Dear Sphinx. The Little Ottleys, by Ada Leverson, with an introduction by Sally Beauman
Out of the Stream. Olive Schreiner: Letters, Volume 1: 1871—1899, edited by Richard Rive
Keeping Warm. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Letters, edited by William Maxwell, and Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman
The Real Johnny Hall. Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall, by Michael Baker
An All Right Girl. An afterword to Thank Heaven Fasting, by E. M. Delafield
Passion, Scholarship, and Influence. Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul, by Barbara Reynolds
BLOOMSBURY A Way Into Life. Virginia Woolf, by Hermione Lee
Breathing Together. A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, by Jane Dunn
The Last Artist. On Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Living Doll and Lilac Fairy. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893—1932, by Gretchen Gerzina, and Lydia and Maynard: Letters Between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes, 1918—1925, edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes
MODERNS AND ANTI-MODERNS The Great Encourager. Ford Madox Ford, by Alan Judd
A Student of Obliteration. An introduction to The World My Wilderness, by Rose Macaulay
Vous Êtes Belle. A Review of Alain-Fournier: A Brief Life, 1886—1914, by David Arkell, Henri Alain-Fournier: Towards the Lost Domain, Letters from London 1905, edited and translated by W. J. Strachan, and The Lost Domain, by Henri Alain-Fournier, translated by Frank Davison
Dame Cissie. Rebecca West: A Life, by Victoria Glendinning
Raging Martyr. Jean Rhys: Life and Work, by Carole Angier
The Near and the Far. An introduction to The Root and the Flower, by L. H. Myers
Betrayed by His Century. Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley, by Adrian Wright
The Only Member of His Club. Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939—1966, by Martin Stannard
THE FORTIES AND AFTER What’s Happening in the Engine Room. John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure, by Adrian Wright
A Kind of Magician. Louis MacNeice, by Jon Stallworthy
The Man from Narnia. C. S. Lewis: A Biography, by A. N. Wilson
‘Not at All Whimsical’ Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith edited by Jack Barbera and William McBrien
Washed Off the Rock. J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer, by Lavinia Greacen
An Unforgettable Voice. Angus Wilson: A Biography, by Margaret Drabble
Joy and Fear. Roald Dahl: A Biography, by Jeremy Treglown
‘Really, One Should Burn Everything’ Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940—1985, edited by Anthony Thwaite
Precious Moments Gone. An Introduction to A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr
WRITERS A Secret Richness. A Few Green Leaves, by Barbara Pym
A Character in One of God’s Dreams. Reality and Dreams, by Muriel Spark
The Great Importance of Small Things. The Collected Stories of John McGahern
Fried Nappy. The Van, by Roddy Doyle
To Remember Is to Forgive. Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs, by William Trevor
Sunny Side Up. The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
Ryder’s Block. The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
War of the Words. Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie
When I am Old and Gay and Full of Sleep. Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow
WITNESSES Grandmother’s Footsteps. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
A Fortunate Man. I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers. VOLUME I: 1933—1941
VOLUME II: 1942—1945
THE MOORS
Canaletto’s Venice1
The Holy Land
CURRICULUM VITAE
SCENES OF CHILDHOOD Well Walk
Thinking of Balcombe
Schooldays
ASPECTS OF FICTION Following the Plot
Hearing Them Speak
WHY I WRITE
How I WRITE: DAISY’S INTERVIEW
LAST WORDS
INDEX
About the author
Praise
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Copyright
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