Writers and their mothers /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Salwak, Dale (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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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.