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James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

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1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Older HardyRobert GittingsClaire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never been given a full biographical treatment until this acclaimed biography by the late Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Drawing on her vivid letters and ...Amazon
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1980 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerTennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard MartinThe lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson, one of the greatest Victorian poets, and the apparent ease with which he wrote them, long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life. Somersb...Amazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerEdith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among LionsVictoria GlendinningHer looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she ...Amazon
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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerFranz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847Alan WalkerThe first volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman,...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerVirginia Woolf: A Writer's LifeLyndall GordonThis prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer...Amazon
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1975 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerCockburn's MillenniumKarl MillerHenry Cockburn (1779-1854), a leading Scottish Whig of the nineteenth century, author of the classic Memorials of His Time, is perhaps the least-known of Scotland's famous men. 'Small, solid and genuine', in Carlyle's phrase, Cockburn gave himself to a var...Amazon
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