lives of some outsider women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dinnage, Rosemary
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5937 - B
- Thesaurus
- emoties, psychische processen, alleenstaanden
- Description
- In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. .Here she brings together her reflections on some of the most memorable of them, including solitairies like the painter Gwen John and the philosopher Simone Weil: muses to partners of genius like Clementine Churchill and Giuseppina Verdi: unstoppable characters like the birth-control advocate Marie Stopes and the children’s novelist Enid Blyton: literary survivors like Barbara Pym, Isak Dinesen and Rebecca West: and an assortment of aristocrats, lawbreakers, manic-depressives, transvestites, and storytellers. In telling their stories, Dinnage considers what aloneness may really be, how it begins, how it feels, and, above all, how this crucial experience can teach and illuminate as well as hurt.