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Read [Anna Thomasson Book] ! A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing A treasure! Fascinating account of a group of people that I can't get enough about, but Rex Whistler is one of the least written about. This is a treasure!. A revelation anne If I’m honest, I never felt much compassion for this piece of English history — the elitism and escapism put me off: until I read A Curious Friendship.Anna Thomasson has the best kind of biographer’s knack for delivering detailed information about a people and their time, while pulling at the reader’
| Title | : | A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1447245539 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Gradually Edith's world opens up and she becomes a writer. The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. Together, they embark on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, becomes a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton—for whom she was "all the muses." Set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of World War II and with an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, Anna Thomasson brings to life, for the first time, the fascinating, and curious, friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.
A treasure! Fascinating account of a group of people that I can't get enough about, but Rex Whistler is one of the least written about. This is a treasure!. A revelation anne If I’m honest, I never felt much compassion for this piece of English history — the elitism and escapism put me off: until I read A Curious Friendship.Anna Thomasson has the best kind of biographer’s knack for delivering detailed information about a people and their time, while pulling at the reader’s heart and imagination. What particularly won me over was how the author’s voice seems to balance the hyperbolic fantasies of her subjects’. "A wonderful first book!" according to J. Petitte. A wonderful story. A descriptive visual, well researched gathering of information from a time long past, most likely never to be repeated. The friendship reflects that age does not defy you of life experiences. You're never too young or old to live the life you are born for. All necessities for living are here; art, literature, imagination, writing. Everyone needs an Edith Olivier and/or Rex Whistler in their circle of friends. This book must be optioned for film.
A Curious Friendship tells the story of two wonderfully unlikely friends and allies during the years between the wars. She has, too, a brilliant visual sense so that one really sees Rex's paintings and those magnificent houses. -- Miranda Seymour Anna Thomasson has uncovered a remarkable story and brings these two fascinating but forgotten figures and their brilliant world vividly to light. -- Selina Hastings . -- Julie Kavanagh A vibrant, admirably researched debut, tinkling with famous artistic names. I was also impressed by the thoroughness of her research. I really felt she had come to know her characters intimately with the result that one completely trusted her judgment every inch of the way. Moving, thoughtful, entertaining and magnificently researched, Thomasson's account of a bohe
Anna Thomasson studied for an M Phil in Biography at the University of Buckingham and her thesis was shortlisted for the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize.
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