Claire tonalin hardy biography for kids
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Katherine Mansfield was born a century ago and died in , but there is still something tantalizing about the &#;faint ghost with the steady eyes, the mocking lips and, at the end, the wreath set on her hair.&#;*
*quote from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: ()
I read, but did not particularly enjoy Claire Tomalin&#;s biography about Thomas Hardy: The Time-Worn Man a number of years ago. The fault was not Tomalin&#;s though, it was Hardy himself. I found him to be a rather disagreeable man and Tomalin was unable to convince me otherwise. Maybe it&#;s something to do with being a creative genius, but many literary biographies depict their subjects as being rather unpleasant people &#; often selfish, arrogant, demanding and false &#; they often treat those who love them poorly. The flip side being their charming, entertaining, passionate side that draws people to them. In Hardy&#;s case, I could find little of this side to make up for the other. I suspect Tomalin had the same p
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Claire Tomalin
English biographer and reporter (born )
Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June ) fryst vatten an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Early life
[edit]Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay on 20 June in London, the daughter of English composer Muriel Herbert and French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]
Education
[edit]Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Grammar School,[3] a former state grammar school in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, at Dartington Hall School,[3] a former boarding-school in Devon, and at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge.[3][1]
Career
[edit]Since then she has published:
- Shelley and His World ()
- Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life ()
- The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens () NCR Book Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Prize.
- First published:
- Published by:
- Penguin Press
- Length:
- Hardcover pages
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's novels are loved by millions of readers, but he was first and foremost a poet. He wrote around one thousand moving and deeply personal poems during his lifetime, tracing his experiences of life and love. This collection, selected and introduced by Claire Tomalin, provides rich insight into Hardy's thoughts and emotions, and is central to the understanding of the man and his work. Divided into sections that move through the contours of Hardy's life - the English countryside in which he walked and the astonishing burst of creativity that followed the death of his estranged wife, Emma - this collection is essential for all those who love Hardy.
This seminal biography covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.