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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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.