MS
's next novel, The Bachelors, was a story of occultism and egocentrism among a group of middle and upper-class single men. She dedicated it to Christine Brooke-Rose
and her husband
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 490, 495-6
Family and Intimate relationships
Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR
married Polish poet and novelist Jerzy Pietrkiewicz
(later Peterkiewicz), whom she had met at the British Library
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet, 1996.
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Friends, Associates
Muriel Spark
She acquired new literary friends after her religious conversion, such as Allen Tate
, Neville
and June Braybrooke
(the latter of whom wrote as Isobel English
, and titled two of her novels at Spark's...
Textual Production
Christine Brooke-Rose
She began writing fiction in order to relieve the exhaustion caused by her husband
's breakdown. A Swedish translation came out the following year.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.