Hope-in-the-Mist The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees |
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| Author:
| Swanwick, Michael |
| Introduction by:
| Gaiman, Neil |
| Illustrator:
| Vess, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9764660-5-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Temporary Culture
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Hope-in-the-Mist is the first book-length study of British author Hope Mirrlees, whom Virginia Woolf described as ¿her own heroine ¿ capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.¿ Raised in Scotland and Zululand, Mirrlees studied with the great classical scholar Jane Harrison and later lived with her in Paris and London. Mirrlees wrote one major poem, Paris (1920), the missing link between French avant-garde poetry and her friend T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land...
More DescriptionHope-in-the-Mist is the first book-length study of British author Hope Mirrlees, whom Virginia Woolf described as ¿her own heroine ¿ capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.¿ Raised in Scotland and Zululand, Mirrlees studied with the great classical scholar Jane Harrison and later lived with her in Paris and London. Mirrlees wrote one major poem, Paris (1920), the missing link between French avant-garde poetry and her friend T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922); her novel Lud-in-the-Mist is an acknowledged classic of fantastical literature.