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Book Synopsis Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson by : Elizabeth Maslen
Download or read book Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson written by Elizabeth Maslen and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Maslen's excellent biography offers a fresh look at the intersection of Jameson's life and work and the way these intersected with figures from Rebecca West to Arthur Koeslter to Czeslaw Milosz.
Book Synopsis Margaret Storm Jameson by : Jennifer Birkett
Download or read book Margaret Storm Jameson written by Jennifer Birkett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century. A self-styled Little Englander by nature, and European by nurture, equally at home, or out of place, in the North Yorkshire moors and seascape of her birth, metropolitan London, rural France, and the capitals of Central Europe, she wrote of country, cities and the exile from both with equal knowledge and sympathy. Out of the changing landscapes of her present, she fashioned her vision of the future. The title of her autobiography, Journey from the North, is a simultaneous evocation and erasure of nostalgia for lost commonality, and in her long life as writer and activist, President of wartime PEN (the association of Poets, Essayist, Novelists) committed to the values of freedom and social justice, she fought to reconcile the conflicting forms of emergent modernity. Her own journey is the generic experience of twentieth-century Britain, and the England she urges on her contemporaries is one that shares the life and mind of Europe. The present book traces the history of that shared experience. It recovers, through her writing, the aspirations and the disappointments of the generation of socialists that was Class 1914. The soldiers returning from the front in 1918, to unemployment and the General Strike of 1926, fight in 1940 alongside Frenchmen, and against Germans, who are victims of the same system: class conflict, nationalist rivalries, imperialist ambition, all for Jameson have the same defining economic horizon. At the end of the odyssey the stark alternatives take shape: Washington or Moscow, the madness of American capitalism, or the oppression of Stalinist Communism. Alongside the narrative of Jameson's life, and the experiences as daughter, wife, and mother that shaped her personality and her career, the book explores her concern with issues of culture and society, cultural memory, and cultural landscapes, her fascination with aesthetic form and the relation of writing to politics, her insight into the materiality of words, and her persistent probing of the nature of the writing subject. It draws on unpublished archive material and brings new research on neglected areas of cultural history into conjunction with literary-critical analyses of Jameson's novels and studies of her journalism and essays. There is an extensive Bibliography of her work.
Book Synopsis Journey from the North, Volume 1 by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book Journey from the North, Volume 1 written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Storm Jameson decided to write her memoirs. The result was Journey from the North, one of the great literary autobiographies of the century. Volume One, first published in 1969, tells of her childhood in Whitby before the First World War, the strong ties with her formidable mother, an early love of the sea, her intellectual achievements at university and falling in love. She vividly recalls her first marriage and the birth of her son; then came her first book, work in London, and the deep happiness of her second marriage to Guy Chapman, the novelist and historian. In the thirties she became increasingly involved in politics, and her accounts of the Depression and the rise of Fascism in Europe demonstrate her exceptional understanding of the years between the wars. But the most extraordinary quality of this autobiography is its fine truthfulness. Her candour - about wanting to be an artist, about failures of courage and of love, her devotion to her son and yet a need for a life of her own - is quite exceptional. Journey from the North is a brilliantly told story of a fascinating life.
Book Synopsis Journey from the North, Volume 2 by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book Journey from the North, Volume 2 written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Storm Jameson s autobiography starts on the eve of the Second World War, and encompasses Jameson's involvement as the first female president of PEN, where she met all of the writers and artists of her day, and was pivotal in helping refugee families get to Britain.
Book Synopsis Journey from the North by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book Journey from the North written by Storm Jameson and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 20th century's finest memoirs of literary and political life, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as “literary gold” “Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it” — Sunday Times A compulsively readable, beautifully written account of a fascinating twentieth-century woman and life. This candid, affecting portrait of a woman who loathed domesticity explores how she sought to balance a literary career with political commitment. Towards the end of her life, the writer Storm Jameson began her memoir by asking, “can I make sense of my life?” This question propelled her through an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her early years in Whitby, shadowed by her tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and repeated flights from settled domesticity; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always dogged by a lack of money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany. In a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells also of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, travels in Europe as fascism was rising and a 1945 trip to recently liberated Warsaw. Throughout, she casts an unsparing eye on her own motivations and psychology, providing a rigorously candid and lively portrait of her life and times.
Download or read book Category 7 written by Bill Evans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor. and Jake Baxter, a weatherman for the CIA, to try, using a secret US Navy weapon. The catch? It has to be deployed inside the hurricane.
Book Synopsis Journey from the North by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book Journey from the North written by Storm Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Margaret) Storm Jameson (1897- ), an author, was born in England. Includes events in her life from the early 1900s to the 1930s.
Download or read book A Richer Dust written by Storm Jameson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson by : Katherine Cooper
Download or read book War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson written by Katherine Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain's relationship to Europe around the Second World War represent a crucial departure from the work of her contemporaries. As the first female President of English PEN, Jameson led her country's wartime literary community through turbulent times in history by focusing on European – rather than pointedly British – experiences of war. War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson is a timely critique situated within the historical and theoretical contexts so fundamental to understanding her work. Presenting previously unpublished archival material that documents her work as an ambassador for British writers during a time of national upheaval, Katherine Cooper reveals how the novelist's pacifism and evolving attitudes to war and peace were underpinned by her overarching vision for the post-war world. Drawing comparisons to the works of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Koestler, Graham Greene and others, this study shows how Jameson's novels gesture towards prevalent internationalist perspectives and reshapes how we view the literary history of the period.
Download or read book A Day Off written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, this outstanding collection is made up of two short novels, A Day Off and The Single Heart, and three long stories which show the variety of the author's great writing skills that make her one of the most distinguished of women writers. In A Day Off, Jameson tells of a day in the life of a middle-aged woman. A lonely woman, snatching at any relationship she can make. It is a story of great perception and understanding but tinged with bitterness and the inevitable sadness of isolation.
Book Synopsis Women Against Men by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book Women Against Men written by Storm Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book None Turn Back written by Storm Jameson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is the everlasting possibility of disobedience, civil disorder, destruction, yes, yes - but the mere whisper or cloud no larger than a man's hand of revolution in this country is madness" It is 6th May 1926, the third day of the General Strike. This is the story of that harrowing week seen through the eyes of the women and men of London as they move through that unreal city. We meet those who gave their all for the strike - and a vision of a better world. We meet, too, those who fought to break it with every weapon they had: power, politics, money - or brute force. There are masters and workmen, fascists and communists, politicians and trade unionists, wives and mistresses, artists, writers and scientists, all caught up in the web of each other's lives. But above all we follow the thread of Hervey Russell's life as she is swept up by the political ferment around her, by the difficulties of a new marriage, and by her hopes and fears for the future...
Book Synopsis The Moment of Truth by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book The Moment of Truth written by Storm Jameson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With literary ability, clarity of style, and astonishing inventiveness, Storm Jameson tells the story of people who - as may happen to any one of us at any time - are forced to make a supremely momentous decision. The author's intellectual curiosity, combined with her grasp of social, political and moral happenings, make this novel a powerful and admirable piece of work.
Book Synopsis Margaret Storm Jameson by : Jennifer Birkett
Download or read book Margaret Storm Jameson written by Jennifer Birkett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life-story of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), prolific novelist and political activist. In her time Jameson gained international recognition for her writing and for her wartime work as President of PEN, fighting for freedom and social justice while rescuing refugees from Nazi Europe and British internment camps.
Book Synopsis There will be a Short Interval by : Storm Jameson
Download or read book There will be a Short Interval written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Jebb - S.J. as he is called - is a distinguished British historian. He has shaped his life pretty much as he wished, subordinating personal responsibilities and professional rewards to his private standards of integrity and scholarship. Or so he believes, until a crucial few days force him into confrontations of a sort he has never faced before. For one thing, his doctor tells him he is seriously ill and must undergo a new and delicate operation if he is to survive. And he is deeply troubled about his twenty-year-old son Simon. The boy's ex-mistress has killed herself in a blaze of notoriety that implicates Simon in moral responsibility of her act. The more father and son talk about it, the more distressed S.J. is by Simon's inability to see this; the more he ponders his role in shaping Simon into the man he is. S.J., newly conscious of his mortality, comes into renewed conflict with his family, and Simon is bitterly and dangerously involved. The play of character, of motive and of conflicting values that always intrigues Storm Jameson makes There Will Be a Short Interval an extraordinarily moving and provocative novel.
Download or read book The Other Side written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a country is invaded and occupied for a long time, the rents that appear in human relationships are not all, or always, due to the brutality of the invader - his kindness can be equally dangerous and disturbing. What happens to a French girl who marries a Young German, decent and well-meaning, and is taken by him to live with his German family? Suppose that he is killed, and she left alone in Germany, with her relations by marriage? What do they think of her? How does she think of herself - has she a country? Which is her country? She has committed a fault-or a social crime -which is also a simple and natural human gesture. It may be something she ought to expiate. But perhaps nothing she can now do will be an expiation. There may be no forgiveness for her, or she may not need it. This is a short truthful book, into which has been concentrated the clearest and fullest realization of the passions and energies involved. The suspense is bearable because it is informed by a lightness in the handling of profound emotions and actions which, far from lessening, accentuates the force and nature of the impression it makes.
Download or read book The Lovely Ship written by Storm Jameson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our story begins with the birth of Mary Hanskye in 1841 as the Industrial Revolution is changing the face of pastoral England. While still a child, Mary comes under the influence of her uncle, one of England's great shipbuilders. Soon she is a young woman involved in a loveless marriage arranged by a father she has hardly known. Though tragedy and disappointment follow her like shadows, The Lovely Ship is a story of the survival of a strong woman as we follow her through marriage, childbearing, family crisis, and her ultimate ascent to the throne of power in the great shipbuilding company.
