The Akeing Heart - Passionate Attachments and their Aftermath
by Judd, Peter Haring
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1484867181
- ISBN 13
- 9781484867181
- Seller
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Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Peter Haring Judd, 2012. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on rear of front cover.The image of Valentine Ackland is not included on the front cover of the book (see image), so this may be a pre-publication copy. The previous owners name is also neatly written on the half-title together with the date, 2013. The previous owner has written eight page numbers in pencil to the free blank rear endpaper, which correspond to vertical lines in panceil to the margins on those pages. The previous owner has also made very occasional notes and comments to the text in pencil. 392pp. Several b/w illustrations. In the late 1930s, in the context of war in Spainthe threat of another great European war and heated politics, this book recounts the story of the lives of three literary women who became entwined through friendship, shared interests, and love. Two were English and lived in Dorset for much of their lives, Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978, writer, Valentine Ackland 1906-1969), poet, and Elizabeth Wade White (1906-1994),Connecticut-born and educated, the future biographer of the poet Anne Bradstreet. The depth of feeling in the affair beween Valentine and Elizabeth caused emotional tumult for all three women, and the after effects of the tumult lived with them for the rest of their lives..
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008027
- Title
- The Akeing Heart - Passionate Attachments and their Aftermath
- Author
- Judd, Peter Haring
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1484867181
- ISBN 13
- 9781484867181
- Publisher
- Peter Haring Judd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
- Keywords
- sylvia townsend warner, elizabeth wade white, valentine ackland
- Bookseller catalogs
- English Literature; Biography/Autobiography;
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