A s byatt biography of albert
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Biographers: ‘Fiction is barred’ (Byatt 1987, 188) or is it?
1The unearthing of the past has been gathering momentum since the 1980s and is still undeniably at the heart of contemporary British fiction in the early 21st century as attested, for instance, by the Booker Prize twice awarded to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and the creation of a Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction in 2009. As Leigh Wilson notes, ‘it has been argued that this historical turn has spread […] to colonize the mainstream novel’ (Wilson 145). History took on a new role in fiction in the 1980s in what Linda Hutcheon labelled ‘historiographic metafiction’, novels which are both historical and self-reflexive, showing that ‘[T]he past really did exist, but we can only know it through its textual traces’ (Hutcheon 75). The Victorian era was the predominant backdrop for a large number of novels that displayed a high degree of self-consciousness in their reconstruction of the past. This approach to the past spread beyond the confines of the Victorian era, Elodie Rousselot describing in similar terms what she calls ‘neo-historical fiction’ (Rousselot 4). While representing the past, all these novels directly or indirectly ask: what do we choose to remember? What is
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The Ghosts of rendering Past: King Tennyson's Strength of mind Story cloudless A. S. Byatt's "The Conjugial Angel"
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The Children's Book
Book by A. S. Byatt novel
The Children's Book is a 2009 novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. It follows the adventures of several inter-related families, adults and children, from 1895 through World War I. Loosely based upon the life of children's writer E. Nesbit[1] there are secrets slowly revealed that show that the families are much more creatively formed than first guessed. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize.[1]
The Wellwood family (Olive, Humphry, Olive's sister Violet, and many children) are Fabians, living in a world of artists, writers, and craftsmen, all moving into new ways to express art, and living an artful life, before the horrors and loss of the Great War. While the central character of Olive is a writer of children's literature, supporting her large family with her writing, the title of the book refers to the children in the book: Tom, Julian, Philip, Elsie, Dorothy, Hedda, Griselda, Florence, Charles/Karl, Phyllis, and others, following each as they approach adulthood and the terrors of war.[2]
In an interview with The Guardian Byatt says:
I started with the idea that writing children's books isn't good for the writers' own children. There are some dreadful stories. Christopher Robin a