Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Autore di Carrington: A Life
Sull'Autore
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is a professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, and an honorary fellow at the University of Exeter.
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Joseph Mehling
Opere di Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Opere correlate
The Annotated Secret Garden (The Annotated Books) (2007) — A cura di; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 246 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
Gerzina, Gretchen - Data di nascita
- 1950-09-06
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Vermont, USA
Canada
California, USA
England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Marlboro College
Simmons College
Stanford University - Attività lavorative
- professor
radio show host
biographer
editor - Organizzazioni
- Dartmouth College
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Fulbright Fellowship - Agente
- Neeti Madan
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Carrington: A Life di Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Connections, connections, connections. I am going from one biography to the next, each connected to the one before and the one after through a lover, a sibling, a group like Bloomsbury, type of lifestyle, political affiliation, ancestors and marital connections. The arts, the literati and what most of them have in common is....they were prolific letter writers, journal/diary keepers, they painted each other, they wrote biographies of each other and they gossiped.
My thoughts and comments:
I just read a beautiful biography on Dora Carrington entitled "Carrington: A Life" by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. This book was a wonderful study of a fascinating woman who lived on the cusp of the "Bloomsbury Group"; not quite within but not quite without. She was a painter and did mainly stills that are quite different but beautiful. She spent her adult life loving and in love with Lytton Strachey, who was a homosexual. He loved her madly as well, but not romantically. And they continued those feelings right to the end.
She did marry but felt very coerced into it. And she had affairs; one of which was with another woman. But I don't believe that she was a lesbian. She just love Strachey so much and couldn't have him romantically. They did share a house and it was quite an open house with other artists & "Bloomsburies" coming and going at all times.
If you like bios of artists of any kind and are not turned off by the homosexual aspect (which I was not), I think you would like/love this book.… (altro)
I just read a beautiful biography on Dora Carrington entitled "Carrington: A Life" by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. This book was a wonderful study of a fascinating woman who lived on the cusp of the "Bloomsbury Group"; not quite within but not quite without. She was a painter and did mainly stills that are quite different but beautiful. She spent her adult life loving and in love with Lytton Strachey, who was a homosexual. He loved her madly as well, but not romantically. And they continued those feelings right to the end.
She did marry but felt very coerced into it. And she had affairs; one of which was with another woman. But I don't believe that she was a lesbian. She just love Strachey so much and couldn't have him romantically. They did share a house and it was quite an open house with other artists & "Bloomsburies" coming and going at all times.
If you like bios of artists of any kind and are not turned off by the homosexual aspect (which I was not), I think you would like/love this book.… (altro)
5 
rainpebble | 3 altre recensioni | Mar 17, 2010 |
rainpebble | 3 altre recensioni | Mar 17, 2010 | Unimpressed by Gerzina as a biographer - judgemental and not beautifully written. But the fascination of Carrington's life is there.
Bought 12 Dec 2008 - The Works
Biography of the author. At pains to explain she was not just a children's writer (I have The Shuttle on my TBR although I'm worrying that it's much darker than I'd realised now I've read the biog), this also goes to great pains to record every year of the subject's life. There are a few clunky passages and while workmanlike, it didn't really set me alight and looking to gallop through it, like a good biography can for me (cf Cecil Beaton or any of the Holroyds)
But a well researched and put together book with a lot of information and great photographs.… (altro)
Biography of the author. At pains to explain she was not just a children's writer (I have The Shuttle on my TBR although I'm worrying that it's much darker than I'd realised now I've read the biog), this also goes to great pains to record every year of the subject's life. There are a few clunky passages and while workmanlike, it didn't really set me alight and looking to gallop through it, like a good biography can for me (cf Cecil Beaton or any of the Holroyds)
But a well researched and put together book with a lot of information and great photographs.… (altro)
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