Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers by Frances Wilson

Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers

Frances Wilson

258 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Lady Caroline Lamb's seduction by Lord Byron's "Childe Harold" cost her both marriage and mental health; Laura Riding, claiming she was poetry incarnate, leapt from a fourth-storey building; Robert Graves, believing she was right, followed. Why do...

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