03837oam 2200649I 450 991078096070332120151002020706.01-315-65337-01-317-31587-11-282-50228-X97866125022861-85196-664-110.4324/9781315653372 (CKB)2520000000009549(EBL)496197(OCoLC)568697234(SSID)ssj0000422008(PQKBManifestationID)11274365(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422008(PQKBWorkID)10413139(PQKB)10356007(MiAaPQ)EBC1510822(MiAaPQ)EBC496197(OCoLC)958109150(Au-PeEL)EBL496197(UkCbUP)CR9781851966646(EXLCZ)99252000000000954920180706d20162009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLet the flowers go a life of Mary Cholmondeley /by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Gender and genre ;no. 1First published 2009 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.1-299-96193-2 1-85196-649-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. 'Water Ti nted with Gold '; 2. 'One Great Hope'; 3. 'If I Found I had no Power at a ll '; 4. 'The Only Life I Know '; 5. 'Strumming on Two Pianos at Once '; 6. 'Not Mine to Keep '; 7. 'Window Wide Open, Yet Discreetly Veiled '; 8. War; 9. 'I Dont Think I was Ever Brave '; Notes; Works Cited; Figures; IndexBorn in 1859 of an aristocratic background, Mary Cholmondeley was a gifted writer. Producing a number of well-received novels, her main success came with the controversial satire <i>Red Pottage</i> (1899), a favourite amongst British troops in the Boer War and even enjoyed by Queen Victoria. Something of an enigma, she was often portrayed as an unambitious spinster to whom celebrity had come as a surprise. On the contrary, however, by the time of her sudden fame, she was already an established writer, having published a number of titles since 1887. But success did not come easily to Cholmondeley. The victim of chronic asthma throughout her life, she became dependent on the morphia she took to alleviate the pain, and was forced to correct the proofs for <i>Red Pottage</i> during a serious illness, during intervals of lucidity. <br> Her private life was unconventional, consisting of an early love affair, broken off due to a misunderstanding of a kind that would sit better in a work of fiction, and from which she never fully recovered. She never left home during her father's lifetime, but after the deaths of her mother and youngest sister, remained with her father and surviving sisters first in Shropshire and later in London. Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography of a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern scholars.Gender and genre ;no. 1.Women novelists, English20th centuryBiographyNovelists, English20th centuryBiographyWomen novelists, EnglishNovelists, English823.912Oulton Carolyn1972-929943UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910780960703321Let the flowers go3728486UNINA