Category: Autobiography/Biography

Margaret C. Anderson | Forbidden Fires | Part memoir, part novel, includes over 97 photographs of Margaret Anderson’s life.

The novel that Margaret Anderson called ‘the story I want

Harold Acton | Nancy Mitford | Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the Mitfords. A relentless tease, she wrote subtle but wildly satirical novels such as Love in a Cold

Arthur E. Weigall | Sappho de Lesbos | This book is a solid, scholarly and interesting biography of the poetess, complete with “13 reproductions from sketches and photographs.”

Fro

Bryher | The Days Of Mars | ‘a masterly evocation of the war years in Britain. Though long domiciled in Switzerland, Bryher left her house, her library, her companion and her dog

Suzanne Raitt | Vita And Virginia | This book examines the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the li

Thea Hillman | For Lack of a Better Word | Memoir of a lesbian poet-activist who grew up intersexed, fat and Jewish in 1980s California.

The discoveries Thea Hillman brings back from Ameri