Joan Haslip (1912–1994)
Auteur van The Crown of Mexico: Maximilian and His Empress Carlota
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- Geboortedatum
- 1912-02-27
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1994-06-19
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Bellosguardo, Tuscany, Italy
- Woonplaatsen
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
- Opleiding
- privately educated
- Beroepen
- journalist
editor
biographer
novelist - Organisaties
- London Mercury
British Broadcasting Corporation - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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I researched a little and the consensus is the Haslip, while dated and while not providing notes or a bibliography, does state the facts and details accurately. However, her theories, judgements and conclusions about the whys and wherefors of LHS's behaviours and choices are hopelessly dated and are also totally inconsistent. Was LHS mad or was she not? Was she a kind and thoughtful person or wickedly cruel? Haslip doesn't have, for example, the psychological tools to examine LHS's behaviour from a more compassionate stance other than that she was an undisciplined and arrogant aristocrat who operated on whims and impulse, uneducated and brilliant. All true, but there is no depth in that evaluation. And her sex life! Who knows? Haslip is fabulously unclear. The original was written in 1926 and, for reasons I cannot fathom, republished in 2006. Anyway, my advice is, if you are interested in LHS and you should be! don't read this bio, find a better one! **… (meer)