Yours always X
Subtitle: letters of longing
By: edited by Eleanor Bass
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781785781681
Subjects: Correspondence; Love-letters; Celebrities
Other titles: Yours always [symbol of a kiss] :
Description: Love letters are potent. They breathe. They speak. They can arouse, comfort, captivate. They can also cut deep. The powerful, deeply personal letters collected here reveal the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'growl with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference' and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a 'terrible' passion. Through the letters of literary icons Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and statesmen Henry VIII and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of such illustrious figures. Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love. Includes letter to and from: Charlotte Bronte, Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Henry VIII, Ted Hughes, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Marilyn Monroe, Iris Murdoch, Edith Piaf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 187-193).
Table of contents: title: Unrequited and unequal love; title: Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Héger; title: Winston Churchill to Muriel Wilson; title: Iris Murdoch to David Hicks and Raymond Queneau; title: W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne; title: Andre de Dienes to Marilyn Monroe; title: Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; title: Virginia Stephen and Leonard Woolf; title: David Hume to La Comtesse de Boufflers; title: Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell; title: Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron; title: Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton; title: Rebecca West to H.G. Wells; title: Conflicted and condemned love; title: Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer; title: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland; title: Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky; title: Edith Piaf to Dmitris Horn and Louis Gérardin; title: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; title: Loretta Young to Spencer Tracy; title: Graham Greene to Catherine Walston; title: Abelard and Héloïse; title: Marie Curie to Paul Langevin; title: Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas; title: Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lucy Rutherfurd; title: A final word; title: Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton; title: Ted Hughes to Sylvia Plath.