Description
Kapp is a gifted writer on the details of family life and a fine recorder of shifting political and cultural patterns. Accounts of the many encounters she had with various important figures-Quentin Bell, Rebecca West, Paul Robeson, John Heartfield, Melanie Klein and Herbert Morrison, to name only a few-are expertly woven into the fascinating story of her own life. This is the autobiography of a woman who took issue with the dominant political movements of her age, with Fascism and with Communism, while at the same time reflecting on the changing cultural and political climate in Britain during her lifetime.
The memoirs of a woman whose vivid and elegant prose captures the changing cultural and political climate in which a twentieth-century life was lived to the full
About the Author
Yvonne Kapp (1903-1999) was a British writer and political activist.
Book Information
ISBN 9781788732666
Author Betty Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 318
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 407g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm * 20mm