Lily Briscoe, a self-portrait : an autobiography /
"Taking her alter ego Lily Briscoe, the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her l...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
Talonbooks,
1981.
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| Summary: | "Taking her alter ego Lily Briscoe, the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her life: 'not to marry, to be an artist' and to listen to her 'own voices.' She speaks of her parents who belonged to 'a generation before their own' and how they instilled in her a sense of guilt, locking her in the prison of her self, a prison constructed 'with the material of doubt and failure; of shattered dreams and unhappy loves, jealousy, hate, envy and the deadly sings of lovelessness and indifference,' but she tells how she escapes this prison with the knowledge that her inner sun takes its energy 'from love, from creativity.'" --From back cover |
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| Item Description: | One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture; is inscribed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 260 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0889221952 9780889221956 |