Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath /
Southworth, Helen,
Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath / Helen Southworth. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Part One A Childhood; Part Two Coming of Age; Part Three Judy Wogan; Part Four Writer! Composer!; Part Five Pacifism in the Face of a Second World War; Part Six My Own Different Personal Life; Part Seven No Remaining, No Place to Stay; Part Eight Love Under The Shadow of Death; Coda; Notes; Index; About Sussex Academic Press.
"Fresca is detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making - how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworth's initial goal was to discover how Francesca's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. The result was to be immediately drawn in to the company of prominent artistic figures of the period"--
9781782843573 1782843574
Allinson, Francesca, 1902-1945.
Allinson, Francesca, 1902-1945
1900-1999
Women--England--Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
Femmes--Angleterre--Biographies.
Groupe de Bloomsbury.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Royalty.
Bloomsbury group
Intellectual life
Women
England--Intellectual life--20th century.
Angleterre--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
England
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
CT788.A425 / S68 2017eb
920.92
Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath / Helen Southworth. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Part One A Childhood; Part Two Coming of Age; Part Three Judy Wogan; Part Four Writer! Composer!; Part Five Pacifism in the Face of a Second World War; Part Six My Own Different Personal Life; Part Seven No Remaining, No Place to Stay; Part Eight Love Under The Shadow of Death; Coda; Notes; Index; About Sussex Academic Press.
"Fresca is detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making - how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworth's initial goal was to discover how Francesca's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. The result was to be immediately drawn in to the company of prominent artistic figures of the period"--
9781782843573 1782843574
Allinson, Francesca, 1902-1945.
Allinson, Francesca, 1902-1945
1900-1999
Women--England--Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
Femmes--Angleterre--Biographies.
Groupe de Bloomsbury.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Royalty.
Bloomsbury group
Intellectual life
Women
England--Intellectual life--20th century.
Angleterre--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
England
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
CT788.A425 / S68 2017eb
920.92