02054nam 2200409 450 991079282670332120230809223925.01-78284-357-4(CKB)3710000001185074(MiAaPQ)EBC4850742(EXLCZ)99371000000118507420170522h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFresca a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath /Helen SouthworthEastbourne, [England] :Sussex Academic Press,2017.©20171 online resource (394 pages) illustrations1-84519-821-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."Fresca is detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making - how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of the period into relief. Helen Southworth's initial goal was to discover how Francesca's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. The result was to be immediately drawn in to the company of prominent artistic figures of the period"--Provided by publisher.WomenEnglandBiographyEnglandIntellectual life20th centuryWomen920.92BIO007000bisacshSouthworth Helen1167698MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792826703321Fresca3828932UNINA