The Taverner novels
By: Mary Butts ; preface by Paul West ; afterword by Barbara Wagstaff.
Contributors: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937.
Series: Recovered classics
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Kingston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Description: Mary Butts was a contemporary of Jean Rhys, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Laura Riding, Marianne Moore and others. Reprinted here for the first time since their original publications, both novels occur in England in the period between the two World Wars. The first novel centers around a group of friends who retrieve a chalice which may be the Holy Grail; the second novel centers around the attempt to uncover the truth behind the death of its namesake, Felicity Taverner, who may have died a suicide, a murder, or an accidental victim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-373).
Table of contents: title: Armed with madness; title: Death of Felicity Taverner.