Carole Seymour Jones: 3 books
A Dangerous Liaison
A Revelatory New Biography of Simon de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The renowned biographer offers a tale of intellectual and romantic rivalry in this “dazzling portrait of Sartre and De Beauvoir’s relationship” (The Guardian).
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the twentieth century’s most prominent authors and philosophers, and the story...
Painted Shadow
The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
By the time Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum for what would be the final nine years of her life, she had been abandoned by her husband T.S. Eliot and shunned by literary London. Yet Vivienne was neither insane nor insignificant. She generously collaborated in her husband’s literary efforts,...
She Landed By Moonlight
The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: The 'Real Charlotte Gray'
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: to fight for...