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Julia Strachey (1901–1979)

Autore di Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

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Fonte dell'immagine: Dora Carrington

Opere di Julia Strachey

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Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Collaboratore — 80 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1901-08-20
Data di morte
1979
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di nascita
Allahabad, India
Luogo di morte
UK
Luogo di residenza
Allahabad, India
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
Istruzione
Brackenhurst School
Attività lavorative
photographer
model (Poiret)
autobiographer
novelist
short story writer
Relazioni
Gowing, Lawrence (2nd husband, divorced)
Strachey, Barbara (half-sister)
Strachey, Ray (stepmother)
Strachey, James (uncle)
Strachey, Marjorie (aunt)
Strachey, Lytton (uncle) (mostra tutto 8)
Strachey, Dorothy (aunt)
Carrington, Dora (friend)
Breve biografia
Julia Strachey was born in Allahabad, India, where her father Oliver Strachey was a British civil servant. Her mother Ruby was of Swiss-German origin. After age six, she lived most of her life in England, where she attended Brackenhurst boarding school. She worked as a model at Poiret, as a photographer, and as a publisher's reader. In 1927, she married Stephen Tomlin, a sculptor; they separated in 1934. She wrote short stories for magazines and later developed into a novelist. She is perhaps best remembered for her 1932 work Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, published by the Hogarth Press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Her paternal uncle was Lytton Strachey, and she became a close friend of Dora Carrington, who painted her portrait. Through all these connections, she became friends with the members of the Bloomsbury Group and was an avid member of Bloomsbury's Memoir Club, where she and its other members discussed and wrote about their shared memories. In 1939, she met Lawrence Gowing, an artist and later a critic, 17 years her junior. The couple married in 1954 and spent a total of 30 years together.

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Reprinted by Persephone Books, a small publisher which reprints "forgotten twentieth century novels" by women, and thank God for that because this novella originally published in 1932 by Virginia Woolf is very good. Taking place over just a few hours in the disorganized household of the widowed Mrs. Thatcham, who is marrying off her daughter Dolly to some anonymous successful diplomat, it is catty, humorous, witty, and perfectly dreadful.
 
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lelandleslie | 18 altre recensioni | Feb 24, 2024 |
It's a brisk spring day in 1930s England, Dolly Thatcham is about to get married to a man who's all wrong for her, and none of the family who've gathered together for her wedding day seems to notice—or even care.

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding is a slight novella that has two major things going for it. One is Julia Strachey's darkly acid humour. This isn't a "laugh out loud" book; it's the kind of book where you say "oof" to yourself even as the joke lands. The other is her ability to use a kind of negative space characterisation. All the action takes place on a single afternoon within a couple of rooms, and we're given very little backstory, but through what is (un)said and how the Thatchams et al say it, I felt like I was told everything I needed to know about them.… (altro)
 
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siriaeve | 18 altre recensioni | Jan 26, 2024 |
Estamos en Inglaterra. En un día de marzo del año 1930 o 1931. Dolly se va a casar con el hombre equivocado, mientras Joseph, uno de sus jóvenes amigos —o «algo» más—, se debate entre detener el enlace o huir de todo aquello, entre declarar su amor o callárselo para siempre. Una madre escandalosa y una hermana alborotadora; familiares excéntricos y amigos muy singulares; sirvientes de la vieja época y una antigua casona en el campo...
 
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Natt90 | 18 altre recensioni | Mar 14, 2023 |
A charming, sweet little book.
 
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NagathaChristie | 18 altre recensioni | Jan 7, 2022 |

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ISBN
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