William Sharp and Fiona Macleod : A Life
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| Autore: |
Halloran William F
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| Titolo: |
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod : A Life
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (476 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 828.709 |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, Scottish - 19th century |
| Authors, Scottish | |
| Literary forgeries and mystifications | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | William Sharp and Fiona Macleod |
| ISBN: | 1-80064-328-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910887926903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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