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‘The heartbreaking story, beautifully told, of a hitherto underestimated poet. Tantalizing but touching, an entire life’s emotional history in a short space.’ Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times
‘A subtle, succinct, generous biography.’ Hilary Spurling, Evening Standard
‘An admirable book, absorbing, full of insight and sympathy and mellow humour.’ Observer
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Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury’s saddest poet.
Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as Virginia Woolf put it, was ‘very good and interesting and unlike anyone else’ and who wrote some of the best English poems of the twentieth century. In her private life, to all appearances, she was a dutiful daughter living at home with a monster of an old mother. The proprieties had to be observed and no one must know that the Mews had no money, that two siblings were insane and that Charlotte was a secret lesbian, living a life of self-inflicted frustration. Despite literary success and a passionate, enchanting personality, eventually the conflicts within her drove her to despair, and she killed herself by swallowing household disinfectant.
In this unexpectedly gripping portrait, Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist’s skills into play, giving us what Victoria Glendinning calls a ‘tantalising, touching story…an entire life’s emotional history in a short space’.
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The second part of the book contains a good body of Charlotte's work and it is lovely to have it there to flick to as you read the story of how a particular poem was wrought.If the mark of a good poem is that its images stay with you then Charlotte Mew was a very good poet indeed.I have a yard full of white geraniums to witness that fact!
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