Four French Holidays (eBook)

Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France

Anne Hall (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
144 Seiten
Unicorn (Verlag)
978-1-911397-54-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp's 1936 holiday in Southern France led to 'Still Waters' and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons' last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.

Autor

Anne Hall

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Champagne • Daphne du Maurier • France • French holidays • Literary Biography • Literature • Margery Sharp • Rumer Godden • Sarthe • Stella Gibbons • Still Waters • the Centre-Val de Loire • The Greengage Summer • The Nutmeg Tree • the region of Aix-les-Bains • the region of Grenoble • The Scapegoat • The Snow-Woman
• ISBN-10: 1-911397-54-0 / 1911397540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911397-54-0 / 9781911397540