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Important to Me Pamela Hansford Johnson

Important to Me By Pamela Hansford Johnson

Important to Me by Pamela Hansford Johnson

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A personal record from the author of Cork Street, Next To The Hatter's

Important to Me Summary

Important to Me by Pamela Hansford Johnson

This is an unconventional memoir - a book of reflections upon the things that have been most important in Pamela Hansford Johnson's life.

It is a wide-ranging book. It offers personal reminiscenses; views on literature, music and painting; portraits of remarkable people; opinions on politics and society; and scenes from an active life. Pamela Hansford Johnson writes about her childhood and youth, giving a marvellous portrait of her mother. She brilliantly discusses the writer who is her greatest enthusiasm-Marcel Proust. With wit and a sharp eye she describes her travels in the United States and Russia. She gives an account of her close friendship with Dylan Thomas, and she portrays Edith Sitwell.

At once personal and reflective, Important To Me is written with immediacy and unassuming grace.

About Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912 and gained recognition with her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She wrote 27 novels. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. The fictional genres she used ranged from romantic comedy (Night and Silence, Who Is Here?) and high comedy (The Unspeakable Skipton) to tragedy (The Holiday Friend) and the psychological study of cruelty (An Error of Judgement). Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981.

She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions (1958) confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House (1954), a work of social criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays, Important to Me (1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975.

Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist Gordon Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.

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NLS9781447215509
9781447215509
1447215508
Important to Me by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Pamela Hansford Johnson
New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2012-03-01
242
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