Book description
Several Strangers is an acclaimed literary collection by
bestselling author Claire Tomalin
From the celebrated biographer of Charles Dickens: A Life
and The Invisible Woman, Several Strangers collects
together the best of Claire Tomalin's literary pieces over a period of
thirty years - including reviews of books on Freud, Katherine
Mansfield, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti
and Virginia Woolf. Through three long, splendidly written
'introductions' - the book also tells of the author's own involvement
in literary journalism during that time. The result is a fascinating
account of how a woman was able to survive in the male world of books
and newspapers. Along the way there are brilliant portraits of Martin
Amis, Andrew Neill and Julian Barnes amongst others.
Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed
biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary
Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine
Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly
Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A
Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn
Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former
literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday
Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
The former literary editor of both the
New Statesman
and the
Sunday Times
, Claire Tomalin has written a series of highly praised and very
successful biographies, most recently her bestselling life of JANE
AUSTEN. She is currently working on a major life of Pepys, to be
published by Viking in 2001. She lives in Camden Town with her husband
Michael Frayn.
