The first full-scale biography of one of Britain?s most important twentieth-century painters
Jane Stevenson is the author of two collections of novellas, Several Deceptions and Good Women, and four novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and Empress of the Last Days. She is Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen.
"[A] wonderfully lively and sympathetic account."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Stevenson has written a wonderfully vivid and intelligent book and
one long overdue, to boot...This is her first biography and it is a
gentle triumph of research and wit...is there nothing Jane
Stevenson cannot do?"
*Observer*
"Superlative... impressively researched and unerringly
well-informed... one can think of half a dozen other British
artists whose milieux are in some sense approximate to Edward
Burra's and who would benefit from her engrossed and intensely
sympathetic treatment"
*TLS*
"Stevenson's triumphant debut as a biographer. She brings a
novelist's sensibility to bear on her subject.... Her treatment of
this brave, funny and inspiring artist is touching, totally
unsentimental and supremely intelligent"
*Sunday Times*
"Jane Stevenson makes a strong case for Burra's originality and
integrity as an artist; his relentless creativity, always moving
on"
*Scotsman*
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