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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Writers and their mothers
  name:
    name part: Salwak, Dale
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 258 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother. In compelling detail they bring to life the thoughts, work, loves, friendships, passions and, above all, the influence of mothers upon their literary offspring from Shakespeare to the present. Many of the contributors evoke the ideal with fond and loving memories, understanding, selfless, spiritual, tender, protective, reassuring and self-assured mothers who created environments favorable to the development of their children's gifts. At the opposite end of the parenting spectrum, however, we also see tortured mothers who ignored, interfered with, smothered or abandoned their children. Their early years were times of traumatic loss, unhappily dominated by death and human frailty.
  table of contents: Biographical. Shakespeare's mother(s) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- John Ruskin and Margaret / Anthony Daniels -- Ambitious daughter: Louisa May Alcott and her mother / Gardner McFall -- Walt Whitman and his mother / Kenneth Silverman -- The maternal embrace: Samuel Beckett and his mother May / Margaret Drabble -- William Golding's mother / Judy Carver -- Voice rehearsals and personas in Sylvia's letters to Aurelia / Adrianne Kalfopoulou -- No villainous mother -- the life of Eva Larkin / Philip Pullen -- Robert Lowell: trapped in Charlotte's web / Jeffrey Meyers -- Autobiographical. Mother tongue: a memoir / Ian McEwan -- 'Persistent ghost' / Anthony Thwaite -- Living with mother / Catherine Aird -- 'Bring her again to me ...' / Ann Thwaite -- My mother, and friends / Reeve Lindbergh -- My mother's desk / Martha Oliver-Smith -- Mater Sagax / Rachel Hadas -- My wicked stepmother / Martin Amis -- About 'My mother enters the work force' / Rita Dove -- A shadow in the grass / Andrew Motion -- Mrs. Gabbet's desk / David Updike -- Dreams of a mother and daughter / Lyndall Gordon -- Her programme / Tim Parks.
  note: Dale Salwak, editor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Authors
    topic: Family relationships
  subject:
    topic: Mothers of authors
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and sons
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and daughters
  classification: PN501 .W75 2018
  classification: 809
  identifier: 9783319683478
  identifier: 3319683470
  identifier: 9783319683485
  identifier: 3319683489
  identifier: 2017961850
  record info:
    record content source: NZAUC
    record creation date: 171122
    record change date: 20181023092647.0
    record identifier: in00004002291