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Nom canonique: Jameson, Storm
Nom légal: Chapman, Margaret Storm Jameson
Autres noms: James, Margaret Ethel (birth)
Clarke, Margaret Ethel
Chapman, Margaret Ethel
Chapman, Margaret Ethel Storm
Date de naissance: 1891-01-08
Date de décès: 1986-09-30
Sexe: female
Nationalité: UK
Lieu de naissance: Whitby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Lieu du décès: Little Paxton, St Neots, England, UK
Lieux de résidence: Whitby, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Études: University of Leeds (BA) (English)
King's College, London (MA)
Professions: critic
novelist
publishing
teacher
journalist
autobiographer
Relations: Chapman, Guy (husband)
Brittain, Vera (friend)
Linke, Lilo (friend)
Organisations: American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1978])
President, British Section, International PEN
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
International Union of Revolutionary Writers
Peace Pledge Union
Prix et distinctions: Honorary DLitt., Leeds University (1943)
Courte biographie: Storm Jameson was the pen name of Margaret Storm Jameson Chapman, born in Whitby, Yorkshire. She graduated from the University of Leeds and earned a master's degree from King's College London in 1914. She worked as a teacher for a short time before launching her career as a writer. She had become a socialist and a strong advocate of women suffrage while at Leeds. She became a prolific writer who produced 47 novels, beginning with The Pot Boils (1919) plus plays, nonfiction books, poems, essays, biographies, memoirs, and her two volumes of autobiography, No Time Like the Present (1933) and Journey from the North (1969). After the end of an early and brief first marriage, she married Guy Chapman, also a writer, in 1926. In the early 1930s, she began a close friendship with Vera Brittain, who had also lost a brother in World War I and shared her pacifist views. Jameson was active in British politics for many year and was a member of the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies, the Peace Pledge Union, and the International Union of Revolutionary Writers. She was a longtime president of International PEN.

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There will be a short interval par Storm Jameson

Anticipation of a possible impending death, compels SJ to review his life and be struck by his inability to comprehend or feel closeness to family or colleagues, to recognize his failures and aloneness while also realizing that his will to live was fueled by the ecstasy of the simple beauty of the world.

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snash | Dec 13, 2023 |

A Day Off par Storm Jameson

A Day Off by Storm Jameson was originally published in 1933 and is really more of a novella than a full length novel. With this story the author brings her reader into the life of a working class, single woman in her forties. She had worked in a glove shop, but gave up her job to live on 2 pounds a week that a “gentleman caller” provided. Unfortunately this caller had not shown up this week and she is afraid that he is not coming back. At age 40, overweight, hair color fading and wrinkles starting to appear she will not have an easy time finding another fellow to foot the bill. Although on the edge of despair, she fights not to give in and tries to remain hopeful that her gentleman caller will come back. She decides to give herself a day off and heads to Richmond Park.

The day is spent in contemplation of her life, from her early days in a Yorkshire factory town to her coming to London and the various turns that her life has taken. Before the day is over, she gives in to her fears and allows herself to take a further step toward the destruction of her values and spirit.

A Day Off is a sad and depressing portrait of woman who is well past her prime and down on her luck, she lives a dingy life with no brightness on the horizon. The author brilliantly captures this woman and the result is frightening and all too real. Anyone who has faced financial anxiety and the loneliness of a life alone will be moved by this story that takes place over the course of one day.… (plus d'informations)

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DeltaQueen50 | 1 autre critique | Apr 5, 2017 |

The Road from the Monument par Storm Jameson

An odd book, and perhaps even more odd because Jameson is such a good writer. Greg Mott is a highly-regarded author, and the director of an artistic institute. He came from humble beginnings – his father was a destitute ex-seaman, and – the shame! – he graduated from Sheffield University – but he has made something of himself, a great man of letters, with important friends and acquaintances. I have to wonder if Mott were based on Evelyn Waugh, although Waugh went to Oxford. The Road from the Monument opens with the retirement of a public school teacher – he’s been there sixty years, wasn’t even qualified when he started, and has been paid a pittance throughout his tenure. The teacher spotted Mott’s potential early, and spoent his own money to put Mott through university. After leaving the school, he goes down to London to see what Mott has made of himself – and realises that Mott’s intelligence and wisdom pretty much skin-deep. He goes back gom edisappointed. The story then focuses on Mott’s second-in-command, Lambert Corry, his best friend at school, who went to Oxford, became a civil servant, rose through the ranks but then resigned to take up a position at the institute. Unlike Mott, he is not a successful author. Although the plot of The Road from the Monument is ostensibly about the scandal which hovers over Mott after he picks up a young woman while on holiday in Nice and gets her pregnant, it reads more like a poison pen letter from Jameson to the UK’s literary set. Most of the characters are writers of varying degrees of success, and James sticks the knife into every one. I tweeted a quote from the book while reading it, and it’s one of the mildest characterisations in the book of one of its cast: “they always gave him credit for honesty and integrity, the virtues of a moth-eaten writer. He got what he deserved – respect and neglect”. The upper class are also depicted as sociopaths (which I suspect they are, anyway; as are the plutocrats), and, in fact, no one in this novel is at all sympathetic… except perhaps the young woman who is made pregnant by Mott. Not a pleasant book to read (I’m not doing too well in that respect in this post), and Jameson does over-do the interiority… but she’s nonetheless a sharp writer, and I plan to further explore her oeuvre.… (plus d'informations)

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iansales | May 10, 2016 |

Love in Winter (Capuchin Classics) par Storm Jameson

Really grows on you. Main character Hervey is trying to do all and be all things. She is a wife and mother, separated, following a new love, still tangled in the old. Other characters suffer similar distress. The novel shows Hervey as a successful participant in the world if writing and publishing. She is a published author, writing for hours at night after work. A strong theme is socialism in the 1920s. Another is the effect of war on the generation of men who survived it, and on their partners. Various male characters illuminate all these themes.
The writing itself is strangely compelling, it is at times intensely emotional or detached, detailed and realistic, or stream of consciousness . Some of her female characters are just awful. Despicable.
For a while I found the novel such a unique work, not all that appealing. But I kept going and it drew me in more as I read on. It seems such a personal and real story, and it is based on the authors life so eventually I accepted what she writes. It is a fascinating glimpse into life in the Twenties, particularly for well brought up women and their relationships. Hervey is so intent on being kind and doing good, as are other characters. It seems unreal today.
The novel is book two in the trilogy Mirror in Darkness. I would love to read Company Parade, book one. From what I can tell it deals with the more immediate aftermath of WW1. I think it has different main characters, who appear briefly in book two.… (plus d'informations)

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annejacinta | Mar 31, 2014 |

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