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Frieda Lawrence / Rosie Jackson ; including Not I, but the wind, and other autobiographical writings.

By: Publication details: London : Pandora, 1994.Description: ix, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 004440915X
Contained works:
  • Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 1879-1956. Not I, but the wind--
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.912 20
Contents:
Frieda Lawrence / Rosie Jackson. The Question of Frieda Lawrence: 'living in greater depth'. Mythologies: 'the mother of orgasm'. Frieda's Men: 'gratified desire'. Frieda and Motherhood: 'the flowers of pain'. Frieda, Lawrence and the Feminine: 'beyond an apartheid of gender'. The Quest for Frieda Lawrence: 'saying yes'. Memoirs and Fictions: 'not I, but the wind'. The Outer Life: 'a real destiny' -- Not I, But the Wind / Frieda Lawrence -- 'And the Fullness Thereof': Extracts from Frieda's Fictionalized Memoirs.
Summary: Married to the most popular English novelist of the twentieth century and the model for his major female figures - from Ursula in The Rainbow to Connie in Lady Chatterley's Lover - Frieda Lawrence has till now been seen only in her role as muse, mate and harridan. This book reassesses Frieda on her own terms. It looks at her childhood in Germany, her early marriage and painful experience of leaving her three young children, the dramatic and eventful years with D H Lawrence in Europe, England, Australia and Mexico and her life after Lawrence's death in 1930. We hear of her friendships with the Huxleys, Stravinsky, her unconventional views on Eliot, Pound and the Bloomsbury set, her notorious love affairs.Summary: Illustrated with rare photographs, some previously unpublished, this is the first study to challenge the usual myths about Frieda Lawrence and to let her speak in her own voice. It includes substantial extracts from Frieda's letters and autobiographical writings, as well as a republication of her memoirs of her life with Lawrence, Not I, But the Wind.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 828.9913912 LAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 55597

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233).

Frieda Lawrence / Rosie Jackson. The Question of Frieda Lawrence: 'living in greater depth'. Mythologies: 'the mother of orgasm'. Frieda's Men: 'gratified desire'. Frieda and Motherhood: 'the flowers of pain'. Frieda, Lawrence and the Feminine: 'beyond an apartheid of gender'. The Quest for Frieda Lawrence: 'saying yes'. Memoirs and Fictions: 'not I, but the wind'. The Outer Life: 'a real destiny' -- Not I, But the Wind / Frieda Lawrence -- 'And the Fullness Thereof': Extracts from Frieda's Fictionalized Memoirs.

Married to the most popular English novelist of the twentieth century and the model for his major female figures - from Ursula in The Rainbow to Connie in Lady Chatterley's Lover - Frieda Lawrence has till now been seen only in her role as muse, mate and harridan. This book reassesses Frieda on her own terms. It looks at her childhood in Germany, her early marriage and painful experience of leaving her three young children, the dramatic and eventful years with D H Lawrence in Europe, England, Australia and Mexico and her life after Lawrence's death in 1930. We hear of her friendships with the Huxleys, Stravinsky, her unconventional views on Eliot, Pound and the Bloomsbury set, her notorious love affairs.

Illustrated with rare photographs, some previously unpublished, this is the first study to challenge the usual myths about Frieda Lawrence and to let her speak in her own voice. It includes substantial extracts from Frieda's letters and autobiographical writings, as well as a republication of her memoirs of her life with Lawrence, Not I, But the Wind.

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