A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
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'Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' - Hilary Mantel In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.
Author: Jean Lucey Pratt
Format: Paperback, 736 pages, 130mm x 198mm, 499 g
Published: 2016, Canongate Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous
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'Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' - Hilary Mantel In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt