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 120
... writing I ought to make note of my own thoughts & opinions more than I have done ; it will give me ease in writing and provided I do it truthfully it will be amusing to compare changing opinions . The most difficult thing in a diary is ...
... writing I ought to make note of my own thoughts & opinions more than I have done ; it will give me ease in writing and provided I do it truthfully it will be amusing to compare changing opinions . The most difficult thing in a diary is ...
Page 148
... writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman , writing under her married name of Mrs Stetson , though she applauded and agreed with the American writer's insistence that ' women are growing honester , braver , stronger , more ― more human healthful ...
... writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman , writing under her married name of Mrs Stetson , though she applauded and agreed with the American writer's insistence that ' women are growing honester , braver , stronger , more ― more human healthful ...
Page 241
... writing about music and teaching could be managed in Paris ( ' the French Paris not the cosmopolitan ' one ) , as he insists ( unconvinc- ingly ) that it couldn't in London . The letter maps a cere- bral and abstract landscape of ...
... writing about music and teaching could be managed in Paris ( ' the French Paris not the cosmopolitan ' one ) , as he insists ( unconvinc- ingly ) that it couldn't in London . The letter maps a cere- bral and abstract landscape of ...
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Portrait of an Artist | 1 |
The Potato Man | 26 |
Three Sisters | 59 |
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