Within The Family Circle: An Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Behind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and Violet Powell tells hers with elegant candour in Within the Family Circle. As the wife of celebrated novelist Anthony Powell, Violet occupies a uniquely privileged vantage point at the heart of twentieth-century British literary and social life, and this autobiography chronicles her upbringing, marriage, and the vivid cast of artists, aristocrats, and intellectuals who populated her world across decades of remarkable cultural change. Powell writes with the understated wit and precise observation one might expect from a woman so long immersed in literary circles, presenting her personal history not as a footnote to her husband's fame, but as a richly textured narrative in its own right. Her memoir illuminates the manners, mores, and quiet dramas of upper-class English life with an insider's authority, drawing on a wealth of personal recollection that feels both intimate and historically significant. Readers who finish the final page will find themselves wondering what other secrets this most discreet of observers chose — with characteristic restraint — to keep to herself.
Author: Violet Powell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Heinemann
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Behind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and Violet Powell tells hers with elegant candour in Within the Family Circle. As the wife of celebrated novelist Anthony Powell, Violet occupies a uniquely privileged vantage point at the heart of twentieth-century British literary and social life, and this autobiography chronicles her upbringing, marriage, and the vivid cast of artists, aristocrats, and intellectuals who populated her world across decades of remarkable cultural change. Powell writes with the understated wit and precise observation one might expect from a woman so long immersed in literary circles, presenting her personal history not as a footnote to her husband's fame, but as a richly textured narrative in its own right. Her memoir illuminates the manners, mores, and quiet dramas of upper-class English life with an insider's authority, drawing on a wealth of personal recollection that feels both intimate and historically significant. Readers who finish the final page will find themselves wondering what other secrets this most discreet of observers chose — with characteristic restraint — to keep to herself.