This is an enchanting and wonderfully evocative memoir of Anny Thackery, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair , aunt of Virginia Wolfe (who used her as the model for Mrs Hilbery in Night & Day). Anny was herself a writer and her novels and memoirs were much praised, but she was even more dearly loved for her eccentric, astoundingly muddled ways and her enormous sympathy for others. At the book's heart are two interwoven stories. The first is Anny's near-obsession with her father Thackery, and her startling marriage to a man who was not only eighteen years her junior, but was her secong cousin, and even her godson (they fell in love when he was still at school). The second, tragic strand is the tale of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen, the craggy, moody, mountain-climbing father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Wolfe. The book also, inevitably, paints the world of Anny's inticate web of relations and friends - children's parties with the Dickens family, chaotic holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons on the Isle of Wight, a dash to help a spinster aunt stuck in Paris during the seige of 1870, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin o
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701171292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90894565
Product Key Features
Book Title
Anny
Author
Henrietta Garnett
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
597g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Henrietta Garnett
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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