Jane Dunn

Standard Name: Dunn, Jane

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Antonia White
AW 's biographer Jane Dunn says that as a mother she was physically absent and prone to unpredictable and transforming rages.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Susan later attempted suicide, and for almost six years as an adult refused...
Intertextuality and Influence Antonia White
Nevertheless, the desire to write persisted. While still unpublished, AW gave her profession as authoress.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Her biographer Jane Dunn says Virginia Woolf was the hero-writer of Antonia's youth.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
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She later enlisted psychiatrists...
Literary responses Antonia White
This novel sold five thousand copies in a year, and was the first work of AW 's to please the critics since Frost in May.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Jane Dunn says that AW was now writing...
Literary responses Dorothy Osborne
The first printing of DO letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice and Martine Rey , Letters by Women in...
Publishing Antonia White
Jane Dunn 's biography says that in about 1919 AW combined her several other jobs with writing stories for the Westminster Review, but since the well-known, long-lived magazine of that name folded in January...
Textual Features Antonia White
The last novel of her trilogy renders in graphic detail AW 's inner experiences during her first divorce and breakdown. Under restraint in a mental hospital, she describes losing all sense of herself: having been...

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Texts

Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.