Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

Avril Horner

$44.95

Publication Date: March 19th, 2024

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

ISBN:

9781526173744

Pages:

372

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Description

This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society.

About the Author

Avril Horner is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University. She is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently Women and the Gothic with Sue Zlosnik (2016) and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-95 with Anne Rowe (2015).