Evelyn Juers: 2 books
by Evelyn Juers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Evelyn Juers’s study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens’s character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. It was said that she had been...
House of Exile
The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In 1933 the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich died in 1950. Born into a wealthy middle-class family...