RelationsJonathan Cape, 2003 - 279 pages "In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experiences of being a daughter and a sister, of the intensities of family life and of the illuminations that come from the last days and death of parents. Relations offers a portrait of a record-keeping, middle-class kinship, reaching back into the past, which begins from her parents' long marriage, its mysteries and incompatibilities, their shared sense of themselves as artists - she as a painter, he as a pianist. It was a marriage marked by the dismay it met with from both their families. Writing about these things leads Miller to further explorations: her relations with her maternal grandfather, Redcliffe Salaman, scientist, historian, secular Jew, and his with his devoutly Jewish wife. Her father's family were Unitarian - Dissenters since the 17th century - and her great-grandfather, Collet Dobson Collet, was known for his role in the successful campaign to liberate the press from the 'taxes on knowledge' imposed by government and for his friendship with Karl Marx. Collet's daughter Clara was one of the first women civil servants, and an economist who was involved in the first stirrings of the Welfare State. Here are the t |
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Page 20
... once about Perlemuter was this selflessness in his approach to the music . It is easy to say that of course this should be the attitude of all true interpreters ; in fact it requires most unusual qualities of sensitiveness and ...
... once about Perlemuter was this selflessness in his approach to the music . It is easy to say that of course this should be the attitude of all true interpreters ; in fact it requires most unusual qualities of sensitiveness and ...
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... once they'd been exclaimed over , slipped down the side of her bed . I am reminded of the time when I gave my parents a type- script copy of a book I'd written . Like so much else , it fell and scattered irretrievably beneath my ...
... once they'd been exclaimed over , slipped down the side of her bed . I am reminded of the time when I gave my parents a type- script copy of a book I'd written . Like so much else , it fell and scattered irretrievably beneath my ...
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... once announced a scheme to fine me a half- penny for every ' sort of ' I uttered ; but inertia predictably defeated both pedantry and greed , and I don't remember that I handed over more than a penny or two . His knowledge remained ...
... once announced a scheme to fine me a half- penny for every ' sort of ' I uttered ; but inertia predictably defeated both pedantry and greed , and I don't remember that I handed over more than a penny or two . His knowledge remained ...
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Portrait of an Artist | 1 |
The Potato Man | 26 |
Three Sisters | 59 |
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