Author: Hermione Hobhouse
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: exhibition, history, royal, industry, commission, art, palace, science, crystal, productive
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0826478417
ISBN-13: 9780826478412

This text celebrates the one hundred and fifty years of the Commission’s work, with its aim of the "application of art and science to productive industry". It is a story with some success and permanent record, and some dissension and controversy.

Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, wharton, edith
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0375702873
ISBN-13: 9780375702877

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society that in

Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: woolf, virginia
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 1999-10-05
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0375701362
ISBN-13: 9780375701368

"A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. --NewsdayA New York Times Book Review  Editors’ ChoiceNational Book Critics Circle Award finalist"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."  --The Philadelphia Inquirer            While Virginia Woolf--one of our century’s most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf’s own belief in the fluidity and

Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, biography
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-08-31
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199533547
ISBN-13: 9780199533541

Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master--the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers, and asks whether there are different strategies, ethics, and principles required for writing about one person compared to another. She also discusses contemp

Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: wharton, edith
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0375400044
ISBN-13: 9780375400049

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton—tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society that in

Author: Hermione Lee
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Keywords: paperbacks, university, woolf, virginia, novels
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1977-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0416828701
ISBN-13: 9780416828702

This is a reissue of a critical introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf, first published in 1977. It makes close, illuminating readings of her nine novels, placing Woolf in her literary context and providing an accessible, clear and valuable guide for students starting out on a study of Woolf as a novelist, and for general readers seeking a fresh, helpful entry-point to the challenge of reading Woolf. Twenty years later, Hermione Lee wrote a prize-winning and acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf: this critical study represented an early stage in this biographer-critic’s life-long inter

Authors:Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: art, british, culture, readings, new, visual, prospect, renaissance, romantic, indian, india
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 075463681X
ISBN-13: 9780754636816

"Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India" is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial, Victorian Britain. The book proposes a second - Indian - Renaissance for British (and European) art and culture and an undeniable connection between English Romanticism and British Imperialism. Artists treated in-depth