Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978)
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The Book of the Bear — Kääntäjä — 15 kappaletta
A Fly in Amber, Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1962) 10 kappaletta
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Moods and tensions : poems 1 kappale
Moods and tensions : seventeen poems 1 kappale
Lud 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Mirrlees, Helen Hope
- Syntymäaika
- 1887-04-08
- Kuolinaika
- 1978-08-01
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- England, UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Erpingham, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Thames Bank, Goring on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Scotland, UK
South Africa - Koulutus
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
École des Langues Orientales, Paris (Russian) - Ammatit
- poet
translator
writer
scholar
classicist
biographer - Suhteet
- Harrison, Jane Ellen (friend)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet and novelist. Her circle of friends included Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Bertrand Russell, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She's best known for Lud-in-the-Mist, a 1926 fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, an influential modernist volume published in 1918 by the Hogarth Press.
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Chat about... Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, The SF&F Book Chat (helmikuu 2013)
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That said, the central mystery plot didn't really work for me - I found it difficult to get invested in the story and wanted a bit more fantasy on the page. Mirrlees was writing before the fantasy genre was a thing and probably thought of herself as writing surrealistic literary fiction, so fellow fantasy readers might be surprised by the shape of the narrative.
The idea of the law as a fantastical fiction is one of the best ideas I've encountered in any novel, fantasy or otherwise.… (lisätietoja)