Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, journalist, and literary critic. Her memoir Thrumpton Hall (book) In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love (2007) won the 2008 Ackerley Prize. Quotes Arthur Benson, one of the coterie of clever, literary-minded younger men whose company the ageing novelist relished, found himself incapable of sharing the enthusiasm of Percy Lubbock and Howard Sturgis for Henry James#Late years, 1898–1916 the later novels. https://books.google.com/books?id=f6KcG9CmJncC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=coterie 117 A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 illustrated, revised Scribner 2004 9780743232203 (335 pages; 1st edition 1988) Today, the most famous scene from Mary's life and, perhaps, in History of literature literary history is the stormy summer night at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva when Byron, his handsome young doctor John William Polidori John Polidori, the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont Mary's stepsister, who was carrying Byron's child, decided to write Horror fiction horror stories for fun. This was the night on which Frankenstein, that best known of all Romantic works, was born. Its author was not yet nineteen.Frankenstein has become part of our lives. Mary Shelley Grove Press 2000 9780802139481 Preface xi–xvi https://books.google.com/books?id=oik67GxBdXIC&pg=PR11 (655 pages; quote from p. xi) Robert Graves: Life on the Edge (1995) Usually dismissive of other female writers, Riding had praised Stein in the final chapter of A Survey of Modernist Poetry for using a language of divine ordinariness. It was Laura Riding Laura's idea that they should invite Miss Stein to publish something with the Seizin Press. Robert Graves: Life on the Edge illustrated Doubleday 1995 9780385404235 https://books.google.com/books?id=1KBaAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ordinariness 160 (523 pages) In 1928 Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War was widely praised for its lyrical, Elegy elegiac approach. Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, also published in 1928, set the scene for the contrast between an idyllic, pre-war world and the savagery of war explored in his Sherston's Progress semi-autobiographical trilogy. p. 180 Thrumpton Hall (2007) Eccentricity has not always been encouraged by the prim editors of Debrett's#Publications Debrett. Invited to list his recreations, George FitzRoy Seymour my father omitted motorbikes and wrote instead: Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom shooting, Deer stalking deerstalking and tennis. Identifying himself as Lord of the manor Lord of the Manor of Thrumpton Hall Thrumpton provided a greater source of satisfaction. Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House Harper Collins 2007 9780061466564 https://books.google.com/books/about/Thrumpton_Hall.html?id=NVcdBudjNocC&pg=PA1 1 (270 pages; 1st published in the UK as In My Father's House in 2007 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.) The Thrumpton Hall House, constructed from rosy bricks and crowned with curved stone gables, stands among the meadows flanking the River Trent, in the middle of England, a hundred miles to the north of London. Starting life as a modest Nottinghamshire manor house built in the Elizabethan literature time of Shakespeare, it was enlarged twice. An ambitious owner redesigned it in the 17th century seventeenth century, to incorporate a large carved staircase and a grand reception room on an upper floor. In the 1820s, the House gained a courtyard, a library and a lake. The estate, easily encompassed by an hour's brisk walk, is surprisingly varied in its landscape, incorporating traces of an Hillforts in Britain Iron Age fort and a Roman Britain Roman trading post. p. 5 External links Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from England Category:Biographers from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Journalists from England Category:Memoirists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Women authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Literary critics