Frances Faviell (1905–1959)
Autore di A Chelsea Concerto
Opere di Frances Faviell
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Lucas, Olivia Faviell
- Data di nascita
- 1905
- Data di morte
- 1959
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- India
Japan
China
Berlin, Germany - Istruzione
- Slade School of Art
- Attività lavorative
- painter
writer - Breve biografia
- Frances Faviell (1905-1959) was the pen name of Olivia Faviell Lucas, painter and author. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London under the aegis of Leon Underwood. In 1930 she married a Hungarian academic and travelled with him to India where she lived for some time at the ashram of Rabindranath Tagore, and visiting Nagaland. She then lived in Japan and China until having to flee from Shanghai during the Japanese invasion. She met her second husband Richard Parker in 1939 and married him in 1940.
She became a Red Cross volunteer in Chelsea during the Phoney War. Due to its proximity to the Royal Hospital and major bridges over the Thames Chelsea was one of the most heavily bombed areas of London. She and other members of the Chelsea artists’ community were often in the heart of the action, witnessing or involved in fascinating and horrific events throughout the Blitz. Her experiences of the time were later recounted in the memoir A Chelsea Concerto (1959).
After the war, in 1946, she went with her son, John, to Berlin where Richard had been posted as a senior civil servant in the post-war British Administration (the CCG). It was here that she befriended the Altmann Family, which prompted her first book The Dancing Bear (1954), a memoir of the Occupation seen through the eyes of both occupier and occupied. She later wrote three novels, A House on the Rhine (1955), Thalia (1957), and The Fledgeling (1958). These are now all available as Furrowed Middlebrow books.
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THE WAR ROOM (1)
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- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 227
- Popolarità
- #99,086
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 6
The author was herself a trained artist and this is noticeable in the almost lyrical quality of some of her prose. More than that, though, she uses words as an artist would use brushes, from gentle, soft descriptions of countryside to sharp, harsh delineations of traits in the characters she portrays.
This book delights on many levels, just as a good painting does. An afterword by the author's son, together with illustrations by the author herself, complete a beautiful composition.
An exceptionally good read. Francis Faviell goes straight on to my shortlist of favourite authors.… (altro)