Nom canonique: Hayter, Alethea
Date de naissance: 1911-11-07
Date de décès: 2006-01-10
Lieu de sépulture: St. Swithun churchyard, Headbourne Worthy, England, UK
Sexe: female
Nationalité: England
UK
Lieu de naissance: Cairo, Egypt
Lieux de résidence: Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Paris, France
Études: Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
Downe House School, Berkshire, England
Professions: biographer
critic
editor (editorial staff ∙ Country Life)
cultural ambassador (British Council)
author
salonniere
Relations: Napier, Priscilla (sister)
Organisations: Society of Authors (member ∙ Committee of Management)
Old Vic Theatre (member ∙ Board of Governors)
Sadler's Wells Theatre (member ∙ Board of Governors)
Prix et distinctions: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1962)
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1970)
Courte biographie: Alethea Hayter was born and spent her early childhood in Cairo, Egypt, where her father Sir William Hayter, was a legal and financial adviser to the Egyptian government in the waning years of the British Protectorate.;After her father died when she was 12 years old, the family returned to England. Alethea attended Downe House School, in Berkshire, and at Oxford University, from which she graduated with a BA in modern history. She joined the editorial staff of Country Life magazine, and during World War II, she served as a postal censor in London, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Trinidad. In 1945, she joined the British Council, and in 1952 was posted to Greece as an Assistant Representative. In 1960, she went to Paris as Deputy Representative and assistant cultural attaché, and her apartment became a meeting place for writers and artists.

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A Voyage in Vain: Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804 par Alethea Hayter

The Romantic poets and the Napoleonic Wars, 12 January 2016

This review is from: A Voyage in Vain: Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804 (Paperback)
Covering six weeks in 1804 when the poet Samuel Taylor-Coleridge embarked on a voyage to Malta for the sake of his health (plus his other issues: "terrifying intermissions of poetic impulse, the raw decay of his marriage, unfulfilled love for another woman, unacknowledged servitude to opium.")
Referring to his diaries and letters, Alethea Hayter gives a picture of life on board a small ship, Coleridge's illnesses and inspirations from the sea and landscape.
Yet this is not just an account of those few weeks: as we read of his letters to friends, they too are introduced into the narrative from their homes in - mainly - the Lake District, and something of their personal circumstances.
Also, this was the era of the Napoleonic War: Coleridge's ship, like all British ships in the Mediterranean, was obliged to travel in a convoy, under the supervision of a commodore, to protect them from the French and corsairs. And so Hayter introduces a certain amount of naval history - we even meet Nelson.
Although well-researched, this for me was 'neither one thing nor the other.' Readers with an interest in Coleridge will want to find out what happened to him (and his friends) after his ship docked in Malta. Those whose interest lies with naval warfare will again not find enough to satisfy them.… (plus d'informations)

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starbox | Jan 12, 2016 |

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