Make use of me
Jeremy Treglown: Olivia Manning, 9 February 2006
Olivia Manning: A Life
by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke.
Chatto, 301 pp., £20, November 2004,0 7011 7749 7 Show More
by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke.
Chatto, 301 pp., £20, November 2004,
“... of Manning’s teens. The Braybrookes tell us that ‘she used to have dreams in which Vanessa Bell and her sister Virginia came floating towards her like beautiful swans.’ An assiduous user of the public library, the young Olivia took out Jacob’s Room almost as soon as it arrived there. But her tastes were catholic: Rider Haggard’s Zulu Trilogy ... ”