Antonia White

Minka And Curdy

The enchanting story of a writer and her cats

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Produktbeschreibung

Antonia White was devoted to her cats throughout her life - as she wrote the famous Frost in May Quartet, they were her constant (and disruptive) companions. In the delightful Minka and Curdy, she fictionalised her experiences.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9780349018478
• ISBN-10: 0349018472
• Artikelnr.: 68099612

Autorenporträt

Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul's School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May (1922), The Lost Traveller (1950), The Sugar House (1952) and Beyond the Glass (1954).