Kinta Beevor (1911–1995)
Autore di A Tuscan Childhood
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Kinta Beevor (1911-1995)
Opere di Kinta Beevor
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Beevor, Kinta
- Nome legale
- Beevor, Carinthia Jane Waterfield
- Data di nascita
- 1911-12-22
- Data di morte
- 1995-08-29
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Northbourne, Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Eastry, Kent, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- autobiographer
memoirist - Relazioni
- Beevor, Antony (son)
Waterfield, Lina (mother)
Ross, Janet (great-aunt)
Waterfield, Aubrey (father)
Duff Gordon, Lucie (grandmother)
Austin, Sarah (great-grandmother) - Breve biografia
- Carinthia Jane "Kinta" Beevor, née Waterfield, was a daughter of Aubrey Waterfield, a painter, and his wife Lina Waterfield, a journalist and founder of the British Institute in Florence. The famous women writers of the family included Lina's paternal aunt and guardian Janet Ross, and her grandmother Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, a friend of Thackeray, Dickens and the Carlyles. Kinta's father fell in love with La Fortezza della Brunella, a Renaissance-era fortified property in northern Tuscany that he first saw in 1896, and he brought his bride there on their honeymoon in 1903. The Waterfields leased, and later bought and restored it. Kinta saw it first as a child in 1916 and revelled in its deep walls and extraordinary roof-garden. She lived there for five years before being sent to an English boarding school for her education. In 1933, Kinta married Jack Beevor, a solicitor, with whom she had three sons, and Italy became their vacation place. Kinta Beevor's memoir A Tuscan Childhood (1993), her first and only book, tells of the family's slow retreat from Tuscany, the attempts to make ends meet, then the sale of La Fortezza in the 1980s. Her son Antony Beevor became a bestselling writer and military historian.
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
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The author's family was well off, but not particularly wealthy. Her father was a painter and her mother a writer - often working as a foreign correspondent. They bought a fortified castle in Tuscany and the author became immersed in life in the area.
What makes the book special is the light it shines on the history of the era - the Fascists in Italy, the impact of the first and second world wars, and also the light it shines on the life of the ordinary people - staff of the household, tenant farmers etc.
I found myself avidly reading, while avidly googling at the same time - researching the prominent people mentioned, checking out the zuppa recipes and so on. It was hard to put the book down.
Read Nov 2017… (altro)