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Burning Man: The Ascent of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you - she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written w ...Show more
Burning Man - The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
D H Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial - and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius, and a sceptic who tol ...Show more
Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelganger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Qu ...Show more
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey by Frances Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelganger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Qu ...Show more
How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor o ...Show more
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman. She was William Wordsworth's inspiration, aide and most valued reader and traded in a conventional life to share in his world of words. In her journals, Dorothy kept a rec ...Show more
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth. 'Genius ... Its own kind of heaven.' - New York Times 'A most beautiful, deep, and humble study of incre ...Show more
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman. She was William Wordsworth's inspiration, aide and most valued reader and traded in a conventional life to share in his world of words. In her journals, Dorothy kept a rec ...Show more
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