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Author:

MacEwan, Helen, author.

Title:

Winifred G©♭rin : biographer of the Bront©±s / Helen MacEwan.

Publisher:

Sussex Academic Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Subject:

G©♭rin, Winifred.
Women biographers--Great Britain--Biography.
Bront©± family.
Biography as a literary form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"The biographer Winifred G©♭rin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bront©± siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Bront©± enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, G©♭rin believing that full understanding of the Bront©±s required total immersion in their environment. G©♭rin's childhood and youth, like the Bront©±s, was characterised by a cultured home and an intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination: polyglot parents, French history, the Crystal Palace, Old Vic productions. Winifred's years at Newnham College, Cambridge were enlivened by such eccentric characters as the legendary lecturer Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Lytton Strachey's sister Pernel, and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eug©·ne G©♭rin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, during which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Vichy France, and escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for the Political Intelligence Department near Bletchley Park. After Eug©·ne's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement by writing poetry and plays until discovering her true literary metier on her visit to Haworth"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1845197437
9781845197438

OCLC:

(OCoLC)920672109

LCCN:

2015028866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)