Description
This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it.'
Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism.
'Provocative and quite dazzling in its ambitions. . . Beautifully written, intellectually compelling' Judith Walkowitz
A brave, disciplined book about longing; not sexual longing as such but the endless longing of the under-privileged that history (and life) be different from what it has been and what it still is' John Berger
About the Author
Carolyn Steedman was born in 1947 and grew up in South London. Her first book, The Tidy House (Virago 1983) was the winner of the 1983 Fawcett Society Book Award. She lives in Leamington Spa and is Professor in the History Department at the University of Warwick
Reviews
I read Landscape for a Good Woman, and some things (not all, because this is not a fairy tale) started to fall into place * Kathryn Hughes *
Book Information
ISBN 9780860685593
Author Carolyn Steedman
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 148g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 128mm * 14mm
