"We Met in Paris" Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar |
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Author:
| Howard, Joan E. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8262-2210-7 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2020 |
Publisher: | University of Missouri Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $26.95USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar's novel
Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It...
More DescriptionGrace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.