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The Furies of Marjorie Bowen
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- John C Tibbetts
- McFarland & Company
- Paperback
- 9781476677163
- 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.6 inches
- 0.97 pounds
- Literary Criticism > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English
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This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose prodigious output included stories of history, romance, and the supernatural. As Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda writes in his Foreword, Bowen may be the finest British woman writer of the uncanny of the last century, a view that echoes the high regard of cultural historian Edward Wagenknecht, who called her a literary phenomenon, one whose best work places her alongside such contemporaries as Edith Wharton and Daphne du Maurier. Publicly acclaimed--known only by a series of pseudonyms (including Marjorie Bowen)--but privately inscrutable, she was and is a mysterious and complex character. Drawing for the first time upon archival resources and the cooperation of the Bowen Estate, this book reveals a woman who saw herself as a rationalist and serious historian, but also as a mystic and dark enchantress of dread. Above all, through a lifetime of domestic storms and creative ecstasy, Bowen worked tirelessly as both a professional writer and a consummate artist, always seeking, as she once confessed, to find beauty in dark places.
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