Antonia White

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Standard Name: White, Antonia
Birth Name: Eirene Adeline Botting
Pseudonym: Antonia White
Nickname: Tony
Pseudonym: Ann Jeffrey
Pseudonym: Jane Marshall
AW found composition a torment, suffered from recurrent writer's block, and discarded innumerable drafts of everything she wrote. Yet besides working as a journalist, she left more than thirty translations, four heavily autobiographical novels, some stories and poems, a play, a fragment of autobiography, two children's books, letters, and diaries amounting to more than a million words.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
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Publishing Colette
This was translated into English (as Claudine at School) by Janet Flanner in 1930 and by Antonia White in 1956 (several times reprinted).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
It was followed the next year by Claudine à Paris...
Publishing Colette
It was translated under the title Recaptured by Viola Gerard Garvin in 1931. Another translation, by Antonia White , appeared under the title of The Shackle in 1963 (title-page saying 1964), as the seventeenth and...
Publishing Colette
There had by this date been one collected edition of her works in French; two more followed by the end of the twentieth century. The edition in English ran to 17 volumes. Other translators were...
Literary responses Leonora Carrington
In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...
Occupation Caroline Blackwood
In the year of her society debut Caroline got a job as a journalist on Picture Post. This lively, popular magazine, a pioneer of photojournalism, was then at the peak of its circulation, but...
Friends, Associates Theodora Benson
TB enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay and Howard Spring . She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith (daughter of an old friend of her mother's)...
Textual Features Theodora Benson
Her contributors include Louis Golding on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB
Travel Djuna Barnes
Other visitors to Hayford Hall included Antonia White and Emily Coleman . DB also spent the summer of 1933 there.
Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas.
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Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin.
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