[ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:40:37 +0100
Claire
I have just checked my read books list and discovered that it was Antonia
White that I was referring to The first book about her early school days -
Frost in May - she has one name but in the second and subsequent titles the
name is changed. The Books are:
Frost in May - School days
Light Traveller - Leaving School, home life and work.
The Sugar House - first rather idealistic marriage.
I believe there are more. They are available from TB.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
Steve, I don't think this can be EJH, as Slipstream is a single volume of
autobiography, not disguised as fiction. Some of her fiction does draw on
her life, as fiction so often does, but the only series is the Cazalets,
where I don't think anyone's name is changed. The only fictionalised
three-volume autobiography I can think of is that of Noel Streatfeild, but I
think the Noel's name stays Victoria. These are (or were) available from the
braille library: a Vicarage Family, Beyond the Vicarage and Away from the
Vicarage. I'm sure others might come up with your answer, and think of other
fictionalised autobiographies. Clare
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
> Claire
>
> Was it Elizabeth Jane Howard who changed the name of the main
> character in her fictionalised autobiography. I know I read three
> volumes of it but was very confused for most of the second book
> because the girl's name was different but she seemed to have had all
> the experiences of the girl in the first book. I read these some time
> ago and can now only remember the confusion and not the details of the
> plot.
>
> Steve
>
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>
> June, I think it probably has more influence on my reading than it
> should, but I would still read them if I enjoyed the writing. Thinking
> more about Elizabeth Jane Howard, I have enjoyed interviews with her,
> it just seems to be in her autobiographical writing that she comes
> across as so whingey.
> And
> of course in Kingsley Amis's writing about her, which I have met in
> his letters. I think she was trying particularly hard to be honest
> about herself, as a good writer sometimes does, though I think not
> always. Clare
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:15 AM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Liking/disliking authors
>
>
>>I try not to let it matter to me about liking or disliking the author,
>>but unfortunately sometimes my prejudices get the better of me. I
>>think we already discussed this in relation to Jeffrey Archer some
>>time ago. How do you feel about it, Clare? Does it make you read a
>>book
> more critically?
>> June
>>
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>> I have only tried to read the Maid of Buttermere, which I couldn't
>> get on with, though I think it was a rather dreary Calibre reader so
>> not a fair test of the book. I have always meant to return to him.
>> Yes, when I hear people in rather salubrious areas whinging about
>> aircraft noise, I want them to go and live somewhere like an
>> inner-city estate where they would really have something to complain
>> about. Elizabeth Jane Howard, in her autobiography Slipstream, says
>> that she couldn't bear her house in Camden Town because of the
>> traffic noise. She had previously lived in Flask Walk in Hampstead,
>> presumably Millionaires' Row where nothing so vulgar as a car ever
>> penetrated. I love her novels, but what a spoilt madam she seems to
>> have been in life. Clare
>>
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