six American women and the lure of Italy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barolini, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- reizen, schrijvers, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Italië, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy’s mythic appeal. They were drawn to an idea of 'Italy' and its gifts — in whose welcome a new self could be created. Emily Dickinson travelled to Italy in the imaginative genius of her verse. Margaret Fuller struggled alongside her Italian lover in the political revolutions that gave birth to the Italian Republic, while the novelist and short-story writer Constance Fennimore Woolson found her home in Venice and Florence. Here, too, is the flamboyant artist Mabel Dodge Luhan, entertaining at her villa near Florence: and Marguerite Chapin of Connecticut, who married an Italian prince and in Rome founded the premier literary review of the mid-century, Botteghe Oscure. Finally, here is Iris Cutting Origo, the Anglo-American heiress who, with her Italian nobleman husband, built a Tuscan estate, where she wrote acclaimed biographies and created a refuge from Mussolini’s fascism. Linking these lives, Barolini shows, is the transforming catalyst of change in a new land.