Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
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Elizabeth Hardwick was born on July 27, 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky. Hardwick earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky, then she enrolled at Columbia University for additional study. Formerly an adjunct associate professor of English at Barnard College in New toon meer York, Hardwick has spent most of her adult life writing novels and essays. Hardwick's first novel, The Ghostly Lover, a story about a Kentucky family, was published in 1945. Since then, Hardwick has also written the novels The Simple Truth and Sleepless Nights. Her books of essays include A View of My Own, Sight-Readings: American Fiction, and Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature. Once nominated for the National Book Award, Seduction and Betrayal focuses on American writers, especially women writers, including Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Anne Porter, among others. The founder and advisory editor of the New York Review of Books, Hardwick's works have appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The London Times Literary Supplement, and Harper's. She died at the age of 91 on December 2, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Elizabeth Hardwick
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (2019) 63 exemplaren
New York City: Crash Course [essay] 2 exemplaren
NOTTI INSONNI 2 exemplaren
Books by and about Women 1 exemplaar
Nits d'insomni (Sleepless Nights) 1 exemplaar
Seducción y traición : mujeres y literatura 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Prynne, Xavier
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-07-27
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2007-12-02
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- USA
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- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
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- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Kentucky
Columbia University - Beroepen
- novelist
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essayist
literary critic
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- Lowell, Robert (former husband)
- Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1977)
New York Review of Books - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1974)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1947) - Korte biografie
- Elizabeth Hardwick was born to a large, strict Protestant family in Lexington, Kentucky. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1939, and moved to New York City. There she studied for a Ph.D. at Columbia University, but dropped out in 1941 to focus on her writing. Her experience as a young Southern woman in Manhattan provided the background for her debut novel, The Ghostly Lover, published in 1945. She published two more novels, including Sleepless Nights (1979), a partly autobiographical work. Hardwick developed an elegant, analytical voice that became her trademark as an essayist and critic for intellectual and literary journals such as Partisan Review. She edited The Selected Letters of William James (1961), published the essay collection A View of My Own (1962), and helped to found The New York Review of Books in 1963. NYRB became the principal outlet for her literary criticism, which later appeared in four volumes including Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (1974) and Sight-Readings (1998). She also wrote a biography of Herman Melville that appeared in 2000. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University, becoming a mentor to students. She was married to poet Robert Lowell, with whom she had a daughter, from 1949 until 1972, a relationship The New York Times characterized as "restless and emotionally harrowing."
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Een aanbeveling van Susan Sontag op de cover én een voorwoord van Deborah Levy: mooier wordt het niet.
Vrouwen en literatuur, vrouwen in de literatuur; een paar van mijn favoriete onderwerpen. In tijden van #fixditnu is dit boek een heus geschenk, ideale timing. Voor mij was de timing helemaal perfect omdat ik net Pose van Basje Boer uit heb (over hoe we kijken en de rollen die we spelen).
Boers referentiekader past wel iets beter bij dat van mij. Ik las Verleiding en verraad vooral voor de stukken over Sylvia Plath en Virginia Woolf. De Ibsen-vrouwen bijvoorbeeld ken ik enkel omdat ze zo veelvuldig voorkomen in het werk van John Irving. Waar Deborhah Levy en ik fan zijn van Woolf, haar werk én haar leven (binnen de Bloomsburrygroep) is Hardwick duidelijk enkel fan van haar werk.
Dat maakt dit boek ook zo boeiend, ik ben het niet altijd met haar eens maar ze weet wel waarover ze schrijft. Haar schrijven verteld vaak meer over haarzelf dan over de besproken vrouwen. Deze bundeling is dus boeiend voor fans van Plath, Woolf, de gezusters Brönte én Elizabeth Hardwick herself. Het is ook een mustread voor iedereen met een boon voor vrouwen en/in de literatuur.… (meer)