Alice Askew (1874–1917)
Auteur de Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer
Séries
Œuvres de Alice Askew
The Invader 1 exemplaire
The Stranger 1 exemplaire
Lady Green-Sleeves 1 exemplaire
The Fire Unquenchable 1 exemplaire
The Boy of Blackstock 1 exemplaire
The Indissoluble Bond 1 exemplaire
The Fear 1 exemplaire
The Golden Girl 1 exemplaire
Rättvisans gissel : The rod of justice 1 exemplaire
The shulamite 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Askew, Alice Jane de Courcy Leake
- Autres noms
- Askew, Alice
- Date de naissance
- 1874-06-18
- Date de décès
- 1917-10-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Korcula, Croatia
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- St. Pancras, Kensington, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Aboard the Italian steamer Città di Bari, about 37 miles from Paxo (torpedoed)
- Professions
- novelist
journalist
nurse - Relations
- Askew, Claude (husband)
- Courte biographie
- Alice Askew was born Alice Jane de Courcy Leake in London, the eldest daughter of a British military officer and his wife. She began writing as a young woman and in 1894 published a short story under her initials, A. J. de C. L., in the Belgravia Magazine. In 1900, she married Claude Askew, with whom she had three children. The couple began writing together and The Shulamite, the first of their 80 books and stories, was published in 1904. A stage adaptation of it was performed in London and New York City, and it was made into a Hollywood silent film entitled Under the Lash (1921). During World War I, Alice and her husband travelled with a British field hospital to Serbia and worked as correspondents for the British Daily Express. The Stricken Land: Serbia as We Saw It (1916) was their last book. Alice served as a nurse with the Red Cross in Corfu, and Claude accompanied the Serbian Army. They were killed returning from leave in Italy when the steamer they were travelling on was sunk by a German submarine.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 100
- Popularité
- #190,120
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 4
Anyway, the thing is a sort of novella parceled out as a string of loosely connected stories. Vance is just recalling old experiences in the first half but then asks Dexter to come along for the ride as new experiences arise. The stories themselves are truly bad, full of hackneyed plot devices and various genre tropes, however the whole has a certain quaint by the fireplace charm.
Nobody, including toddlers, would be frightened by any of this, as the stories read more like Edwardian fairy stories with the sprites replaced by spooks. There is some thickly veiled moral ambiguity that wouldn’t be present in most Victorian tales of this kind.
I actually didn’t hate it like I should have.… (plus d'informations)