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The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
ANTONIA WHITE<br >i was born in London in I899,<br > and<br > educated<br > at<br > the<br > Convent<br > of<br >i the Sacred Heart, Roehampton and St Paul s Girls School,<br > London. She trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of<br > Dramatic Art, working for her living as a freelance copywriter<br > and contributing short stories to a variety of magazines. In<br > x924 she joined the staff of W. S. Crawford as a copywriter,<br > became Assistant Editor of Life and Letters in 1928, theatre critic<br > of Time and Tide in I934, and was the Fashion Editor of the<br > Daily Mirror and then the Sunday Pictorial until the outbreak of<br > the Second World War. During the war Antonia White<br > worked first in the BBC and then in the French Section of the<br > Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.<br > Antonia White published four novels: Frost in May 0933),<br > The Lost Traveller 095o), The Sugar House (I952), and Beyond<br > The Glass (1954) all published as Virago Modem Classics. This<br > quartet of novels will be televised by the BBC in I98 i. Her<br > other published work includes a volume of short stories,<br > Serangers ([954), shordy to be published by Virago.<br > Antonia White translated over thirD novels from the<br > French, and was awarded the Clairouin Prize for her first one,<br > Maupassant s Une Vie, in I95o. She also translated many of the<br > works of Colette. Like Colette, Antonia White was devoted to<br > cats and wrote two books about her own - Minka and Curdy<br > and Living With Minka and Curdy. She was married three times<br > and had two daughters and four grandchildren. She lived most<br > of her life in London and died in I98o in Sussex, where her<br > father and many generations of her family were born and bred.<br >
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The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024