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Tag Archives: modernism

Book review: The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (1863-1946, England)

A powerful forgotten classic from 1922

Posted byimogen27th Aug 202328th Aug 2023Posted inbookTags: 1922, books, England, Europe, female writers, fiction, May Sinclair, modernism, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, United Kingdom2 Comments on Book review: The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (1863-1946, England)

Review no 118: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (Dominica)

Classic 1930s novella of drifting and hard-drinking in Paris

Posted byimogen21st Nov 202021st Feb 2021Posted inbookTags: #novnov, 1930s fiction, alcohol, Dominica, female writers, France, Jean Rhys, modernism, novella, novellasinnovember, paris6 Comments on Review no 118: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (Dominica)

Review no 103: stories by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), and My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn (New Zealand)

Exceptional, highly influential writing from New Zealand

Posted byimogen7th Sep 20207th Sep 2020Posted inbookTags: classics, Far East South Asia and Australasia, female writers, memoir, modernism, new zealand, short storiesLeave a comment on Review no 103: stories by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), and My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn (New Zealand)

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