HESTER CRADDOCK by Alyse Gregory

With an Introduction by Barbara Ozieblo

including a previously unpublished portrait of the author

A hardback book in dustjacket of

220 pages in a limited edition

Price £ 19.50

ISBN-13: 9780955152337

Dimensions: 210x140mm

Published: 31 January 2007 

Hester Craddock and her sister Nelly live with their aloof brother Wilfred in a cottage on a remote headland. The comfortable monotony of their routine lives is broken irrevocably by the arrival in the local village of the writer Edwin Pallant and his attractive artist friend Halmath Tryan. Casual acquaintance leads to deeper involvement as the protagonists become entangled in a web of shifting relationships, in which the desire for knowledge and experience unleashes the forces of jealousy, suspicion, and despair, with unforeseen consequences.

‘Gregory’s novels, so far forgotten and ignored, merit their place in the canon of modernist literature in English as exemplary studies of the human consciousness struggling to make sense of itself.’ - From the Introduction by Barbara Ozieblo

 REVIEWS: ‘This attractive reissue of her third novel, Hester Craddock, an acutely observed psychological drama, is especially welcome. It is certainly an impressive and memorable work.’ – The Times Literary Supplement Aug 24/31 2007

‘Hester Craddock is a rich and powerful book... It is a novel of psychic moods, inner tensions and forces.. However much of Alyse’s personal experiences and torments went into the writing of this novel, they have been through the crucible of her imagination to produce a work of fiction of wide scale and deep intensity.’ – Rosemary Manning

‘In Hester Craddock … the writing is so good that it is not necessary that it should be flawless.’ – Marianne Moore

^{To read an extract from Hester Craddock Click Here}

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alyse Gregory was born at Norwalk in Connecticut. One of her first great loves was music and she spent some of her early years in Europe training to be a singer, but on returning to the United States became involved in local politics and the woman’s suffrage movement, for which she was a fearless public speaker. In New York she began contributing articles to such publications as The Freeman, The New Republic and The Dial, becoming editor of this last journal in 1924. That same year she married the English writer Llewelyn Powys and moved with him to Dorset in 1925. Over the next six years she published three novels – She Shall Have Music (1926), King Log and Lady Lea (1929) and Hester Craddock (1931). These were followed by her only other published volumes – a collection of essays, Wheels on Gravel (1938), and an autobiography, The Day Is Gone (1948). To read more on Alyse Gregory please click the following link Alyse Gregory

[Dr Barbara Ozieblo teaches American Literature at the University of Málaga, Spain. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography (2000) and is currently working on a joint biography of Alyse Gregory and Gamel Woolsey.]

HESTER CRADDOCK

Alyse Gregory

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