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Rosamond Lehmann
The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. Escaping from a disastrous early marriage, Rosamond moved right into the heart of Bloomsbury society with Wogan Philipps. Later on she would embark on the most important love affair of her life, with the poet Cecil Day Lewis. Nine years later, he abandoned her for a young a...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
June 1st 2002
by Random House UK
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This is an absolutely fascinating biography. I hve not reasd any novels by Rosamond Lehman - yet. However I now feel that this biography will have given me a greater understanding of the woman she was. Her life was a tirbulant one. Married twice, and having had several lovers, a couple of whom were several years her junior, she lived a life that exposed her to a lot of heartache. I always love the old photographs in these biography's and this one certainly has some good ones, an I know I spend f...more
This is a thorough, entertaining, and well written biography. Hastings does draw some unavoidable parallels between Lehmann's life and her novels, but she stays away from too much biographical criticism. Her handling of Lehmann's later-life spiritualism, which started at the death of Lehmann's beloved daughter Sally, is also very good, showing respect for Lehmann's beliefs but also showing how Lehmann unconsciously began to use those beliefs to feed her own ego (for instance, saying that Cecil D...more
Probably deserves more stars for its author, but I wanted to feel sympathy for the subject as I have enjoyedd her novels so much and I began to be very irritated by her snobbery and neediness. Only felt sympathy when she suffered loss.Perhaps I should have stuck with ner novels.
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