Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978)
Auteur van Lud-in-the-Mist
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Werken van Hope Mirrlees
The Book of the Bear — Vertaler — 15 exemplaren
A Fly in Amber, Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1962) 10 exemplaren
Poems 1 exemplaar
Moods and tensions : poems 1 exemplaar
Moods and tensions : seventeen poems 1 exemplaar
Lud 1 exemplaar
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Het leven van aartspriester Avvakoem door hemzelf geschreven (1924) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 61 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Mirrlees, Helen Hope
- Geboortedatum
- 1887-04-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1978-08-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- England, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Erpingham, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Thames Bank, Goring on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Scotland, UK
South Africa - Opleiding
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
École des Langues Orientales, Paris (Russian) - Beroepen
- poet
translator
writer
scholar
classicist
biographer - Relaties
- Harrison, Jane Ellen (friend)
- Korte biografie
- Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet and novelist. Her circle of friends included Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Bertrand Russell, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She's best known for Lud-in-the-Mist, a 1926 fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, an influential modernist volume published in 1918 by the Hogarth Press.
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Chat about... Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees in The SF&F Book Chat (februari 2013)
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That said, the central mystery plot didn't really work for me - I found it difficult to get invested in the story and wanted a bit more fantasy on the page. Mirrlees was writing before the fantasy genre was a thing and probably thought of herself as writing surrealistic literary fiction, so fellow fantasy readers might be surprised by the shape of the narrative.
The idea of the law as a fantastical fiction is one of the best ideas I've encountered in any novel, fantasy or otherwise.… (meer)