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Janet Hobhouse (1948–1991)

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Born in 1948, author Janet Hobhouse was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. As an adult, she lived in both London and New York City. In the 1980's, she was primarily an art critic, which is evident in her two non-fiction works: The Bride Stripped Bare, an art study on the female nude, visa mer and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. She also wrote four novels: Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark, November, and The Furies. She died from ovarian cancer in 1991 at the age of forty-two. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Födelsedag
1948
Avled
1991-02-01
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Manhattan, New York, USA
Dödsort
Manhattan, New York, USA
Dödsorsak
cancer
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Utbildning
University of Oxford
Spence School, New York, New York, USA
Yrken
writer
editor
biographer
novelist
Relationer
Hobhouse, Henry (father)
Organisationer
Art News
Vogue
Kort biografi
Janet Hobhouse was raised in New York City and attended Oxford University. Her mother and grandmothers were both sculptors. She first won wide attention with her 1976 biography of Gertrude Stein, Everybody Who Was Anybody. She also wrote The Bride Stripped Bare, a study of the female nude in art. Ms. Hobhouse was also critically acclaimed for her novels -- Nellie Without Hugo (1982), Dancing in the Dark (1983), and November (1986). The Furies (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel, was published posthumously. She died at age 42 from cancer.

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Janet Hobhouse was still writing The Furies when she died of ovarian cancer in 1991, at the age of 42. The book is simultaneously a memoir and a novel, with the protagonist Helen drawn very directly from Hobhouse’s life. She and her mother (Bett in the novel) were products of a strong matrilineal line, devoid of supportive men, and their relationship was unusual and intense. Bett and Helen lived in reduced financial circumstances, causing Helen no end of social difficulties during her school years. And yet she made her way from New York to Oxford, and then into a successful writing career.

But that success was tempered by dysfunctional relationships. Helen is continually restless, moving from one place to another in the blink of an eye. She has a tendency towards on again, off again relationships with men. She never quite achieves independence from Bett; they were very close, and Bett was also very needy. And yet the evolution of their relationship drew me in, especially in the latter part of the novel. I also found the last chapter -- in which Hobhouse/Helen announces her cancer diagnosis and contemplates her inevitable death -- very moving.

While The Furies is not an easy read, it’s one of those books that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
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lauralkeet | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 23, 2020 |
I didn't much care for 'Dancing in the Dark', but my admiration of NYRB Classics convinced me give Hobhouse another chance.

The book is elegant and well into the last section does not scan like a draft that needed more time from its author. The first section of the book detailing her family's history was the most worthwhile, while everything related to Helen herself was sterile. No matter how much emotional distress Helen was going through, the childhood mortification, the struggles with her parents and herself, the romances, they felt like self-pitying anecdotes (which they apparently are) which failed to even gain my empathy, let alone sympathy.

The craft is there, certainly, but I can neither enjoy or learn from it.
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ManWithAnAgenda | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 18, 2019 |
gaycist.

By this, I mean that the middle class Manhattan couple, finding trouble in their relationship throughout the course of this novel, decide in the end to blame all of their problems on the wife's flamboyant gay friend - who, I remind you, was recruited by the lady in the first place as a crutch for her affections. But that's cool. Just blame the gay guy ladies, your husband's a prince.

A sequel of sorts exists for this book in the form of 'The Furies', which I'll get to eventually.

*I couldn't find any relation between the two books after I read them both, aside from some autobiographical riffing. And now I can't find where I got that idea in the first place.
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ManWithAnAgenda | 1 annan recension | Feb 18, 2019 |
I enjoyed reading and learning about this remarkable woman. she was at the start of the modern painting and literature. he had an influence on 20th century culture and she live a very radical life without making it a issue. she was someone that lived our life and her values
 
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ISBN
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