KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath.
by Hamilton, Ian
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571198430
- ISBN 13
- 9780571198436
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About This Item
Boston & London:: Faber & Faber,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An "entertaining history of broken promises and mismanaged wills, of reputations whitewashed or maligned, of scholars and crooks, of muddle, trickery, scandal and vendetta. He includes the burning of Byron's memoir, the deification of Shelley and Henry James' attempt to "fix" his own posthumous reputation as well as the more recent controversies surrounding the Plath and Larkin estates. Throughout, Hamilton presents an array of well-meaning acolytes - admirers, best friends, widows - whose task it was to keep the flame sacred." Notes, index. viii, 344 pp.
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- Title
- KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath.
- Author
- Hamilton, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571198430
- ISBN 13
- 9780571198436
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber,
- Place of Publication
- Boston & London:
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary biographies;
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