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Obres de Penelope Hughes-Hallett

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The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen (1990)algunes edicions417 exemplars

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Fairbairn, Penelope Ann (birth)
Data de naixement
1927-06-13
Data de defunció
2010-04-01
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
England
UK
Lloc de naixement
London, England, UK
Llocs de residència
Steventon, Hampshire, England
Batsford, Gloucestershire, England
Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, England
Educació
Open University
Professions
editor(Faber & Faber)
literature professor
literary historian
Organitzacions
Open University (board member)
Wordsworth Trust (patron)
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (trustee)
Biografia breu
see Telegraph orbituary online http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/orbit...
Penelope Anne Fairbairn was born in London and spent her childhood at Steventon, Hampshire, where Jane Austen also was raised. She hoped for a literary career and got a job for a short time as a secretary at Faber & Faber. In 1948, she married Michael Hughes-Hallett, a land agent, with whom she moved to the country and had three children. Penelope Hughes-Hallett decided in her mid-40s to complete her education, first by correspondence course and then with the Open University. She re-established contact with Faber & Faber, where she helped T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie to edit Eliot's letters. Penelope also began to teach literature within the Open University and at the Oxford University Department of External Studies. She then started writing books of her own. Her first published work was an anthology, Childhood (1988), enriched by her knowledge of 19th-century children's literature. It was followed by other books including My Dear Cassandra (1990), about the relationship between Jane Austen and her sister; and At Home in Grasmere (1993), about Wordsworth and his circle. Her most original work was The Immortal Dinner (2000) which took as its starting point an 1817 dinner party given by the painter Benjamin Haydon for his friends Wordsworth, Keats, Charles Lamb, and others. Penelope Hughes-Hallet also served as a member of the board of the Open University.

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Lots of detail about the lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge with gorgeous illustrations
 
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siri51 | Mar 23, 2017 |
The dinner in question is held by Benjamin Haydon, the painter, in his London studio. Among the guests were Keats, Wordsworth and Charles Lamb. The dinner is used as a focal point for the author to explore a wide range of aspects of the social and literary life at the time. It succeeds in giving a genuine insight into life in literary and artistic London in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars. It ranges through the new age of scientific discovery by the likes of Davey and Faraday, doomed journeys of exploration in Africa, the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade, the treatment of the insane (I.e. Charles Lamb's sister, Mary), the gory details of the surgical techniques at the time, the supplying of bodies by grave robbers to anatomy classes and the lives and work of the guests at the dinner.
Haydon himself is probably the most interesting character, being the least well-known; his life a series of ups and downs due to his money troubles and disputatious nature. As a lifelong Londoner, what I found equally interesting we're some of the day to day details of London life at the time, including the journeys each of them made to get to the dinner
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stephengoldenberg | Apr 6, 2016 |

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3
També de
1
Membres
118
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#167,490
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
9

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