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Caryll Houselander: A Biography
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Books > Biographies > Biographies
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| Author/Artist: |
MARY FRANCES COADY |
| ISBN / ID: |
9781626985308 |
| Publisher: |
Orbis |
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PAPERBACK |
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AU$47.95 |
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This biography tells the life of the elusive 20th-century English writer, Caryll Houselander, who saved no personal letters and left only her books, which included a short autobiography, a few classics of Catholic spirituality, and some unpublished personal scratchings.
Born in 1901, Caryll was of the generation that lived through two world wars, and by the time of the second she had already been marked by the first. In between the two were the days of wandering: art school, bohemianism, a love affair, self-torture as she desperately sought to find herself in her search for God. The suffering of human beings in war, which she equated with the suffering Body of Christ, led to her first book, This War is the Passion. Other books followed, all circling around the Christ-life.
Her own life was cut short by cancer, about which she wrote, as if matter-of-factly making plans for the day ahead (she had long since found God--or, perhaps, in the way of the poet Francis Thompson, whom she admired, God had found her): "Well, if God wants me to die, it's all right." |
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