Janet Hobhouse (1948–1991)
Auteur de The Furies
A propos de l'auteur
Born in 1948, author Janet Hobhouse was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. As an adult, she lived in both London and New York City. In the 1980's, she was primarily an art critic, which is evident in her two non-fiction works: The Bride Stripped Bare, an art study on the female nude, afficher plus and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. She also wrote four novels: Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark, November, and The Furies. She died from ovarian cancer in 1991 at the age of forty-two. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Janet Hobhouse
The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Female Nude in the Twentieth Century (1988) 29 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1948
- Date de décès
- 1991-02-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Études
- University of Oxford
Spence School, New York, New York, USA - Professions
- writer
editor
biographer
novelist - Relations
- Hobhouse, Henry (father)
- Organisations
- Art News
Vogue - Courte biographie
- Janet Hobhouse was raised in New York City and attended Oxford University. Her mother and grandmothers were both sculptors. She first won wide attention with her 1976 biography of Gertrude Stein, Everybody Who Was Anybody. She also wrote The Bride Stripped Bare, a study of the female nude in art. Ms. Hobhouse was also critically acclaimed for her novels -- Nellie Without Hugo (1982), Dancing in the Dark (1983), and November (1986). The Furies (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel, was published posthumously. She died at age 42 from cancer.
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I enjoyed reading and learning about this remarkable woman. she was at the start of the modern painting and literature. he had an influence on 20th century culture and she live a very radical life without making it a issue. she was someone that lived our life and her values
Janet Hobhouse's second novel from 1983, is set in a contemporaneous New York of all-night discos and easy sex but not yet of HIV and AIDS. The novel pre-dates the Springsteen song.
Gabriella and Morgan Callagher after six years of marriage are facing an uncertain future. Differing views on how they want to live are causing widening gaps in their relationship. Gabriella wants to dance all night with their gay friends, and bluff her way through work during the day; while Morgan is starting to take his career more seriously and watches his peers starting families and moving out of the city. Their lives begin to move on parallel lines; Claudio (Gabriella's guide to the gay New York scene) and then Kate ( a friend facing divorce) move into their apartment. Do the Callaghers' even want to save their marriage?
Janet Hobhouse died fairly young and only wrote a few books. I found this novel completely involving. Difficult subject matter to make so compelling. It is sharp and intelligent about issues the characters themselves find it hard to articulate, and I found myself liking and despising both Gabriella and Morgan in turn. Worth reading but don't expect a tidy, clear cut ending.… (plus d'informations)
Gabriella and Morgan Callagher after six years of marriage are facing an uncertain future. Differing views on how they want to live are causing widening gaps in their relationship. Gabriella wants to dance all night with their gay friends, and bluff her way through work during the day; while Morgan is starting to take his career more seriously and watches his peers starting families and moving out of the city. Their lives begin to move on parallel lines; Claudio (Gabriella's guide to the gay New York scene) and then Kate ( a friend facing divorce) move into their apartment. Do the Callaghers' even want to save their marriage?
Janet Hobhouse died fairly young and only wrote a few books. I found this novel completely involving. Difficult subject matter to make so compelling. It is sharp and intelligent about issues the characters themselves find it hard to articulate, and I found myself liking and despising both Gabriella and Morgan in turn. Worth reading but don't expect a tidy, clear cut ending.… (plus d'informations)
The biggest attraction of Janet Hobhouse's account of growing up poor in New York City, and how, from those humble beginnings, she got herself to Oxford, and made herself a writer is the prose. It's nice to read such frankly exuberant writing from a time and place when a more austere mode was preferred. Oddly, her mother's suicide, which, one assumes, was intended to be one of the book's central events, makes for the most skim-worth reading: other people's grief, it may be, is just not that interesting. I'll place it on the shelf next to Alix Roubaud's journals.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 1
- Membres
- 502
- Popularité
- #49,320
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 4
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- 1
But that success was tempered by dysfunctional relationships. Helen is continually restless, moving from one place to another in the blink of an eye. She has a tendency towards on again, off again relationships with men. She never quite achieves independence from Bett; they were very close, and Bett was also very needy. And yet the evolution of their relationship drew me in, especially in the latter part of the novel. I also found the last chapter -- in which Hobhouse/Helen announces her cancer diagnosis and contemplates her inevitable death -- very moving.
While The Furies is not an easy read, it’s one of those books that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.… (plus d'informations)