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Manning, Olivia

Imperial refugeeOlivia Manning's fictionsof war /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imperial refugeeEve Patten.
Reminder of title:	Olivia Manning's fictionsof war /
Author:	Patten, Eve.
Published:	Cork, Ireland :Cork University Press,2011
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 234 p.).
Notes:	Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945Literature and the war.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781908634214 (electronic bk.)

Imperial refugeeOlivia Manning's fictionsof war /
Patten, Eve.

Imperial refugeeOlivia Manning's fictionsof war /[electronic resource] :Eve Patten. - Cork, Ireland :Cork University Press,2011 - 1 online resource (vii, 234 p.).

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter one. A life in writing -- Chapter two. The Balkan trilogy: Romania and the farend of Europe -- Chapter three. From Athens to Alexandria: the contexts of personal landscape -- Chapter four. Egypt, the Desert war and the Levant trilogy -- Chapter five. 'John Bull's other Ireland': Manning's Palestine fiction -- Conclusion. The Rain forest -- Notes and references -- Bibliography -- Index.

Olivia Manning's reputation as a difficult personality often threatens to obscure her reputation as a writer. Few twentieth century novelists can have inspired such consistent dislike. The publisher Dan Davin, for example, who was devoted to Manning's gregarious husband Reggie Smith, complained of her as a shrewish woman whose aim was to be as unpleasant to as many people as possible, whilethe legendary denizen of Fitzrovia, Julian Maclaren-Ross, recalled among his Stag's Head drinking circle the taciturn, undemonstrative and physically unattractive Olivia Manning who, from the vantagepoint of her bar-stool regarded the otherswith an expression of amusement, mingled with contempt. Fellow writer Inez Holden christened her "whiney" Manning; Anthony Powell, her otherwise generous editor at Punch, admitted her to be the world's worst grumbler and her publishers at Heinemann were forced to conclude that she was never an easy artist to handle. Even Kay Dick, her lifelong friend and correspondent, depicted Manning in her 1984 novel The Shelf as the spiteful gossip Sophie, who, withher wry fragility, delicate hands and penetrating voice . . . often reminded me of a goshawk about to bite.

ISBN: 9781908634214 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

633440
Manning, Olivia
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

177169
World War, 1939-1945
--Literature and the war.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6063.A384 / Z638 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914

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