Alethea Hayter
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
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In a heatwave in Victorian London, a group of writers and artists spends their summer wining, dining, and opining. Elizabeth Barrett is courted by Robert Browning, Keats roams Hampstead Heath, Wordsworth visits the zoo, Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb, and the Carlyles host parties for a visiting German novelist. When Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, their lives spiral around the tragedy. Alethea Hayter's A Sultry Month is a group biography of Victorian London's literati, inspired by the collages of the Pop Artists. It is a pioneering feat of creative non-fiction in 1965, and is still vivid, witty, and enticing today.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
The Times
June 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glamorous coterie of writers and artists spend their summer wining, dining and opining. With the ringletted face of an Egyptian cat goddess, Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiancé, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams Hampstead Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles host parties for a visiting German novelist and suffer a marital crisis. But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, they find their entwined lives spiralling around the tragedy.
One of the first-ever group biographies, Alethea Hayter's glorious A Sultry Month is a lively mosaic of archival riches inspired by the collages of the Pop Artists. A groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965, her portrait of Victorian London's literati is just as vivid, witty and enticing today.
Elegant Hayter more or less invented the biographical form which is a close study of a brief period in the life of an individual or a group. A rigorous scholar [with] an artist's eye.
A. S. Byatt Hayter's clever, innovative book turned a searchlight on a time.
The Times
Weight: 315g
Dimension: 216 x 135 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571372294
Edition number: Main
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