Should Auld Acquaintance

Discovering the Woman Behind Robert Burns

Par (auteur) Melanie Murray
Catégories: Biographies (ouvrages généraux), Biographies et ouvrage documentaire, Biographies et études littéraires, Études sur les femmes, Études de genres, Groupes sociaux, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales, Biographies d’artistes, Monographies d’artistes, Techniques et sujets des Beaux-Arts, Arts, Architectes et firmes d’architectes, Architecture, Photographes, Collections de photographies, Photographie
Éditeur: Nightwood Editions
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Paperback : 9780889713284, 288 pages, Janvier 2017

La description

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who inspired Burns’ timeless poetry. Armour is portrayed as a resilient woman who overcame the abandonment of her family, the loss of her children, and the instability of her philandering husband.

Reviews

"With an evocative mix of novelistic reinvention and exhaustive legwork, she recreates Armour and Burns's late-18th-century courtship. ...Fans of poetry and melodrama will be transfixed by Murray's compelling portrait of Armour's enduring commitment to Scotland's bawdy bard. "
-- Publishers Weekly, April 2017
- Publishers Weekly