Priscilla Napier (1908–1998)
Auteur de A Late Beginner
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Œuvres de Priscilla Napier
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1908-10-05
- Date de décès
- 1998-10-10
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Cairo, Egypt
- Études
- Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
Downe House School, Berkshire, England - Professions
- biographer
writer
poet
autobiographer - Relations
- Hayter, Alethea (sister)
- Courte biographie
- Priscilla Napier, née Hayter, was born in Oxford, England, and spent much of her childhood in Cairo, Egypt during the last years of the British Protectorate. Her parents were Sir William Hayter, a legal and financial adviser to the Egyptian government, and his wife Alethea Slessor. Her brother, Sir William Goodenough Hayter grew up to become British Ambassador to the USSR, and her younger sister Alethea Hayter became a cultural ambassador and literary biographer. She was educated at Downe House School, in Berkshire, and then won a scholarship to the University of Oxford, where she graduated with a BA in modern history. In 1931, at age 22, she married Trevylyan Napier, a Royal Navy officer and a descendant of the famous Napier family of Merchiston, with whom she had three children. Her husband was killed on active service in 1940 during World War II, and she developed a writing career based on studies of his family. Many of her book won critical acclaim. They included: The Sword Dance: Lady Sarah Lennox and the Napiers (1971), A Difficult Country: the Napiers in Scotland (1972), Revolution and the Napier Brothers, 1820-1840 (1973), and I Have Sind: Charles Napier in India, 1841-1844 (1990). She also published poetry, translations, and an autobiography recreating her childhood in the late Edwardian era, A Late Beginner (1966).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 107
- Popularité
- #180,615
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 18
It puzzles me that it is not more well known.
Just hunting down a copy of this book was a treat in itself. I too first heard about it on the BBC show My Life in Books where it was picked as an old favourite by the Duchess of Devonshire. Via Google I found Slightly Foxed and their wonderful book shop near Gloucester Road station. And so I was lucky to get hold of one of the limited edition cloth-bound pocket editions. What a treat to read a book with a ribbon placeholder! I went back there recently and was told that A Late Beginner is now sold out but that a pocket paperback will be done next. Exactly when, they cannot say yet.… (plus d'informations)