Brian Thompson (3)
Autor/a de The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian
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Sobre l'autor
Brian Thompson has written for the stage, radio, television, & is the author of four novels. He divides his time between Oxford, England, & the South of France. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obres de Brian Thompson
The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian (2000) 115 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
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Ressenyes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 116
- Popularitat
- #169,721
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 138
- Llengües
- 2
Alas, it came tumbling down. Georgina had always set herself up for disaster by trusting the most inappropriate people, as long as they flattered he considerable ego. In this case the inappropriate person was her lover, Angele, the ex-prostitute. Angele persuaded Georgiana to sign over all her property (Tavistock House was long gone and the couple was living in more modest accommodations). Georgina went into one of her frequent histrionic fits when Angele disappeared for a while, and confronted her with a numbered list of her faults when she came back; Anglele calmly responded by noting that she owned the house they were living in and ordering Georgina to take her dogs, birds, monkeys and luggage and get lost. All passion spent, Georgian meekly complied and headed off to a convent in France, where she spent most of her remaining years compiling and privately printing an eight-volume set of memoirs. She died in 1914, back in England.
This is novelist Brian Thompson’s first biography; his writing is entertaining, although I would have preferred more footnotes documenting some of the more astounding facts of Mrs. Weldon’s life. He was inspired by encountering her memoirs in a French bookstore; reading them must have been laborious as he describes them as “rambling and incoherent” and the few passages he quotes directly are exactly that; there are apparently some very titillating passages where Georgina describes various activities with her lovers in non-Victorian terms but the effort of sorting through all the verbiage probably isn’t worth the small gratification. Worth a look if you want to be disabused of the idea that Victorian life was all pantaloons on the piano legs.… (més)