Helen Southworth. Fresca. A Life in the Making. A Biographer’s Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath
The subject of Southworth’s book is Francesca (Fresca) Allinson (1902–1945), a puppeteer, choral conductor, writer and creator of folksongs, whose life was cut short by drowning. She grew up in a gifted and thoroughly non-conformist family. Her brother Adrian, a painter, studied at the Slade school....
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| Language: | English |
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University of Groningen Press
2020-10-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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| Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/36978 |