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Beschreibung
In 1939, Malachi Whitaker was living with her family in the Yorkshire manse she had coveted since childhood. After years of poverty, her life of comfort-and success as a writer-had been hard-won. With war looming in Europe and worried about her ability to continue writing, she feared that this pleasant existence could vanish overnight. Aiming to capture the moment, she began keeping the journal that would become And So Did I.

Spanning the years 1937-1938, And So Did I is both a record of daily existence and an impressionistic account of Whitaker's life told through memories, speculations, and daydreams. Decades ahead of its time, it is a precursor to the genre-bending work of writers like Annie Ernaux and Deborah Levy.

'What is the use of life?' when danger lurks all around, Whitaker asks. Her determination to find joy in plants, insects, children, music, food and books will resonate with readers asking similar questions today.
In 1939, Malachi Whitaker was living with her family in the Yorkshire manse she had coveted since childhood. After years of poverty, her life of comfort-and success as a writer-had been hard-won. With war looming in Europe and worried about her ability to continue writing, she feared that this pleasant existence could vanish overnight. Aiming to capture the moment, she began keeping the journal that would become And So Did I.

Spanning the years 1937-1938, And So Did I is both a record of daily existence and an impressionistic account of Whitaker's life told through memories, speculations, and daydreams. Decades ahead of its time, it is a precursor to the genre-bending work of writers like Annie Ernaux and Deborah Levy.

'What is the use of life?' when danger lurks all around, Whitaker asks. Her determination to find joy in plants, insects, children, music, food and books will resonate with readers asking similar questions today.
Über den Autor
Malachi Whitaker was the pseudonym of Marjorie Whitaker, born Olive Marjorie Taylor, the eighth of eleven children, in Bradford in 1895. She left school at the age of thirteen to help support her family, and married Leonard Whitaker in 1917. She began publishing short stories soon after and four collections were published by Jonathan Cape between 1929 and 1934. She came to be considered one of the finest English short story writers of her time. As she writes in And So Did I, by the late 1930s, she found writing increasingly problematic and she published few new pieces thereafter. She died in Skipton, Yorkshire, in 1976.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781915812742
ISBN-10: 1915812747
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Whitaker, Malachi
Hersteller: Boiler House Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Malachi Whitaker
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,217 kg
Artikel-ID: 134077968