Mollie Panter-Downes (1906–1997)
Teoksen Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes tekijä
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Letter from England 2 kappaletta
Chase 2 kappaletta
Watling Green 2 kappaletta
Pastoral at Mr. Piper's 2 kappaletta
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The New Yorker Book of War Pieces: London, 1939 to Hiroshima, 1945 (1947) — Avustaja — 98 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Panter-Downes, Mary Patricia
- Syntymäaika
- 1906-08-25
- Kuolinaika
- 1997-01-22
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- female
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- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- London, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Compton, Surrey, England, UK
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- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Roppelegh's, Surrey, UK - Ammatit
- writer
novelist
columnist
journalist
short story writer
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book reviewer - Organisaatiot
- The New Yorker
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- Mary Patricia "Mollie" Panter-Downes was born in London, England and grew up in Essex. Her parents were Marie Kathleen and Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes, an officer in the Royal Irish Regiment killed at the Battle of Mons in World War I when his daughter was eight. Mollie published her first novel, The Shoreless Sea, at age 16. It became a bestseller. Her second novel The Chase was published in 1925 and was followed by several more, including One Fine Day (1947, reissued 1986), one of the most enduring novels of the century. She married Clare Robinson in 1929 and the couple traveled around the world and had two daughters. They lived in a 16th-century house on a farm near Chiddingfold in Surrey, 40 miles south of London. In 1938, she began a 50-year career of writing for the New Yorker. At first she contributed some poems and short stories, then she became the regular British correspondent through her "Letter from London" column, which ran from September 1939 until 1984. Her column was so popular that that the first year's correspondence was issued as a collection called Letter From England in 1940. She also wrote travel articles, book reviews, children's literature, nonfiction books such as Ooty Preserved (1967), and a biography of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Much more so than there, though, does Panter-Downes get under the skin of the class system, its destabilization after WWII, and the sense of delusion under which most privileged Brits lived during the war. While Laura holds the center, and causes Panter-Downes to focus a lot on women's changing roles in and out of the domestic sphere, comments about class and aging, class and bias, class and hypocrisy—all combined with an attention to gender—there are some very astute portraits in here, too, of a crisis in masculinity that the war prompted more so than WWI did, a sense of displacement, and, even still, a nationalistic pride and all but unfounded optimism that is never droll, trite, or sentimental.
It's a damn shame this book is out of print; even more so, that Panter-Downes has written several other novels, about which I can find hardly any information at all, anywhere. If anyone finds information out, please do comment below. This is a fantastic writer whose insight into humanity just in the aftermath of chaos is so worthwhile and prescient to read given the current political climate.… (lisätietoja)