Lauraphobia
Jenny Turner, 10 March 1994
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
by Deborah Baker.
Hamish Hamilton, 462 pp., £25, October 1993,9780241128343 Show More
by Deborah Baker.
Hamish Hamilton, 462 pp., £25, October 1993,
“... jumped straight on a train to Nashville, there to meet with her friends-and-collaborators-to-be. John Crowe Ransom, then a key member of the Fugitive group, tells the story of what happened next. Undoubtedly we were rather absurd in the way we received Laura at Nashville – prim, formidable and stiff. What she came for was human companionship of the most ... ”