There Will Be A Short Interval

STORM JAMESON

Harper&Row

This short book offers the dispassionate but sharp-tongued comments on the novel today by an old fiction hand, a personal exercise of taste and judgement, backed by a life interest in the history and methods of literary criticism. It reviews the evergreen question of the death of the novel, so often and confidently announced; the difficulties, peculiar to our nihilistic and often brutal age, that press on the contemporary novelist; the effect on him and his work of the technological revolution; his increasing diffidence in face of the overwhelming prestige of science in our day; the changing language of fiction; the novel as an art form; the nouveau roman, and its most sophisticated and more esoteric cousin, the nouvelle critique; the eruption into common daylight of pornographic fiction; the use and misuse of censorship. It attempts to decide whether the traditional or classic novel has a future and what sort of future. Though it may offend a great many solemn persons it has not been written to give offence, but in a serious effort to reach some positive conclusions about the health, the moral and aesthetic worth, of the novel in a day when our minds are, as never before, at the mercy of their worst dreams.

Parthian Words

<p>In these three novels, published together in England for the first time, Storm Jameson looks at three women, their relationships to men, and to other women.  Beautiful Victoria Form, seen through the eyes of her childhood friend Fanny, is a famous novelist and relentless seductress: her favourite pastime is to ensnare men - and betray women.  Emily Lambton is the daughter of Sir John, owner of a shipping line.  She makes a brilliant marriage to Lord Holt but falls in love with a socialist clerk, Evan - a love that is to consume her life.  Lastly we meet a nameless middle-aged woman: one of the so many who have lived off men all their lives.  Alone now in a shabby bedsitter, her looks gone, she reaps the bitter rewards allotted in that ancient battle between the sexes.</p>

Women Against Men (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin??Books

Early Life of Stephen Hind, The

Pan Books

Book by Storm Jameson, Warren Beck, Lawrence Lee, Percival Hunt, Edwin L. Peterson

Hidden Streams: Essays on Writing (Essay Index Reprint Series)

Reference

Warren Beck

Percival Hunt

Edwin L. Peterson

Lawrence, Lee

Words, Language & Grammar

Ayer Co. Pub

She was too restless to work or write. She thought of Richard, of her unmanageable desires and her un-abatable ambitions... ‘My life is in pieces, I am nothing, I have achieved nothing; yet I will, she thought'. In the month after the 1918 Armistice a young woman, Hervey Russell, comes to London to seek her fortune. Inexperienced and poor, she has all the strength and stubborn will of her Yorkshire grandmother and all the dreams of youth. Hervey is alone, her husband in the Air Force still, her baby son in Yorkshire. She plunges into the social and political ferment of London life with her friends T.S. and Philip, her slovenly, amicable neighbour Delia, and her lover, the American Jess Gage. This is the beginning of Hervey's story... Storm Jameson (1891- 1986) born to a North Yorkshire family of shipbuilders. Jameson's fiery mother, who bore three girls, encouraged Storm (christened Margaret Storm) to pursue an academic education. After being taught privately and at Scarborough municipal school she won one of three county scholarships which enabled her to read English Literature at Leeds University. She then went on to complete an MA in European Drama at King's College London. During her career Jameson wrote forty-five novels, numerous pamphlets, essays, and reviews, in an effort to make money. Her personal life suffered, and her first marriage to schoolmaster Charles Douglas Clarke was an unhappy one. After they divorced in 1925, Jameson went on to marry Guy Chapman, a fellow author, and remained with him despite her apparent rejection of normal domestic life. Storm Jameson was always politically active, helping to publish a Marxist journal in the British section of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers in 1934 and attending anti-fascist rallies.

Company Parade

Random House]

Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Contemporary

Time Warner Books Uk

A wonderful first edition, printed in 1935.  An excellent addition to a library.

LOVE IN WINTER

Random House, Inc.

NONE TURN BACK

Virago

<p>In 1960, Storm Jameson decided to write her memoirs. The result was Journey from the North, one of the great literary autobiographies of the century. Volume One, first published in 1969, tells of her childhood in Whitby before the First World War, the strong ties with her formidable mother, an early love of the sea, her intellectual achievements at university and falling in love. She vividly recalls her first marriage and the birth of her son; then came her first book, work in London, and the deep happiness of her second marriage to Guy Chapman, the novelist and historian. In the thirties she became increasingly involved in politics, and her accounts of the Depression and the rise of Fascism in Europe demonstrate her exceptional understanding of the years between the wars.\nBut the most extraordinary quality of this autobiography is its fine truthfulness. Her candour - about wanting to be an artist, about failures of courage and of love, her devotion to her son and yet a need for a life of her own - is quite exceptional. Journey from the North is a brilliantly told story of a fascinating life.</p>

JOURNEY FROM NORTH-V1

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Virago Press Ltd.

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