Edwin and Willa Muir : a literary marriage / Margery Palmer McCulloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCulloch, Margery Palmer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959.

Muir, Edwin.

Muir, Willa, 1890-1970.

Muir, Willa.

Translators--Great Britain--Biography.

Translators.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2023.

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is the story of a literary marriage forged in the political and cultural turmoil of the first half of the twentieth century. Edwin Muir met Willa Anderson at a party in Glasgow in 1918 and their adventurous journey together took them to Europe in the 1920s, where they met many of the writers, artists, dancers, dramatists, and thinkers of the day. Committed to a life in letters, they moved between Britain and the Continent as they struggled to make a living in the years between and after two World Wars. Willa was to reflect on ‘how European we were’ and indeed their translations of modern German literature introduced the works of Hermann Broch and Franz Kafka, among many others, for the first time to English-speaking audiences around the world.

Dr Margery McCulloch’s study draws on personal travel and a wealth of new sources from private correspondence, publishers’ archives, the recollections of friends, and the diaries, unpublished journals, and autobiographical memoirs of Edwin and Willa themselves. This is the fullest account of the couple’s life and times together in Europe, Britain, and North America during a long and loving marriage. It was not without difficulties, as Willa sought to find proper acknowledgement of her translation skills, and space for her own creativity as a novelist in the shadow of her own ill health and Edwin’s growing status as a major modern poet.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 Coming Together 1918-1921

Part I ADVENTURING IN EUROPE

2 Prague and a New Czech Republic 1921-1922

3 Elbflorenz 1922-1923

4 North and South 1923-1924

5 Fête du Citron 1924-1926

Part II PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

6 Early Writings

7 Willa and Womanhood 1927-1929

8 Crowborough and Literary Life 1929-1931

Part III THE POLITICAL THIRTIES

9 Changing Worlds and a Hampstead Idyll 1930-1933

10 Scottish Journeys 1933-1935

11 Scotland and Europe 1935-1939

12 Translating for a Living

Part IV A SINGLE, DISUNITED WORLD

13 The Second World War in St Andrews 1939-1942

14 Edinburgh and a New Poetry 1942-1945

15 The Cold War and Prague 1945-1948

16 Roman Interlude 1948-1950

17 Newbattle Abbey 1950-1955

Part V A NEW WORLD

18 American Adventure 1955-1956

19 Swaffham Prior 1956-1959

20 Willa Alone 1959-1963

21 Last Years 1963-1970

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: McCulloch, Margery Palmer Edwin and Willa Muir

ISBN:

9780191948947 (electronic book)

0-19-267281-9

OCLC:

1373345051