- Hardcover: 362 pages
- Publisher: Andre Deutsch; New edition edition (March 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0233993843
- ISBN-13: 978-0233993843
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 640 g
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The Abinger Edition of Marianne Thornton, based upon E. M. Forster's own annotated copy, presents the text of one of his two full-length biographies.
This truly was a 'domestic' biography, documenting the life of Forster's great aunt. Marianne died in 1887, when Forster was aged eight, but his decision to focus upon her rather than one of his more publicly famous ancestors enabled him to emphasise the private implications of public life and give pride of place to the inner life. He was intrigued by the personality that emerged from the wealth of family archives he plundered during his research, and Marianne's longevity enabled him to draw a rounded portrait of public and private life from the Georgian England of unreformed parliaments to the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
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E.M. Forster's Great Aunt..., July 28 2004
By Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887. (Paperback)
Forster tells of the fascinating period in which she lived, from George III through the last years of Victoria's reign, and of his own boyhood. Drawn from his own recollections and from her correspondence and journals. Here are glimpses of Marianne's friends: Lord Macaulay, William Wilberforce (the abolitionist), Hannah Moore (the reformer), and Florence Nightingale (who probably went off to the Crimea because she was tired of picking up her mother's spectacles, says Marianne), but above all it is the story of Marianne herself. She was one of nine children of a prominent banker and philanthropist, who observed her times at home at Battersea Rise, near London, with the persepective of a candid, charming, and intelligent lady possessed of social conscience.Marianne's England was an England of stern moral rectitude...the fact that Henry Thornton married his deceased wife's sister caused a scandal in society and in Parliament (it was typical of Marianne's determined brother that he should move his family to the Continent and fight for a change in English law to make his marriage fully respectable, says she.) She never married and stayed at Battersea to preserve and protect the heritage (and worried that Napoleaon would cross the channel just to cut down her tulip tree). You can tell this book was written with love by E. M. Forster.
16 illustrations.
Refers to the 1956 1st edition.
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