Ann Thwaite

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Ann Thwaite


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
October 04, 1932

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Ann Thwaite is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Duff Cooper Prize, 1985) was described by John Carey as "magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time". Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmund Gosse's father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by D.J. Taylor in The Independent as one of the "Ten Best Biographies" ever. Her biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published as Waiting for the Party (1974) and reissued in 2020 with the title Beyond the Secret Garden, with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson. Emily Tennyson, The Poet's Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Fin ...more

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Goodbye Christopher Robin: ...

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A.A. Milne. His life

3.93 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1990 — 18 editions
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Beyond the Secret Garden: T...

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Waiting for the Party: The ...

3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions
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The Brilliant Career of Win...

3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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The Camelthorn papers

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions
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Glimpses of the Wonderful :...

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Edmund Gosse: A Literary La...

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Emily Tennyson: the poet's ...

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My Oxford

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“Lawrence hid himself in the Air Force under the name of Shaw to avoid being introduced for the rest of his life as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. I do not want C. R. Milne ever to wish that his names were Charles Robert. The comparison between Lawrence of Arabia and Christopher Robin, which at first seems rather ridiculous, has real reverberations. Robert Graves once wrote of Lawrence, ‘He both despised and loved the legend that surrounded him’, and this was also true of Christopher Milne at different stages of his life. The great difference, of course, was that Lawrence’s legend was based on his own achievements, Christopher Robin’s on nothing he had done himself –and his mixed feelings would eventually transfer from the legend to his father, the author of it.”
Ann Thwaite, Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

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