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Joanne O’Leary: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Style, 17 November 2022
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Cathy Curtis.
Norton, 400 pp., £25, January,978 1 324 00552 0 Show More
by Cathy Curtis.
Norton, 400 pp., £25, January,
The Uncollected Essays
by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 304 pp., £15.99, May,978 1 68137 623 3 Show More
by Elizabeth Hardwick, edited by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 304 pp., £15.99, May,
“... Having had mothers and fathers and the usual miserable battering of the sense of self by life may arouse the emotional pulsations of a story or a poem; but feeling is not sufficient for the essay. Comparisons roam about it, familiarity with those who have ploughed the field before … Tact and appropriateness play a part. How often we read a beginner’s ... ”