[ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors

  • From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:20:28 +0100

Oh, sorry, Steve, I didn't read down to your email before I replied. I've just told you what you already know. 

Trish.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 2:40 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors



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


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
Sent: 15 June 2013 12:20
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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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:51 PM
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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On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
Sent: 13 June 2013 10:05
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors

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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 12 June 2013 09:52
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BRAGG BOOKS

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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