TAYLOR, Elizabeth.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Angel. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper.The novel relates the publishing successes of a disturbingly unreflective and romantic young girl, based in part on late Victorian novelist Marie Corelli. Matthew Walther observes how Angel, "convinced of her own genius... writes tawdry best-seller after tawdry best-seller and torments everyone around her... The book is not really a roman à clef so much as it is a kind of horrifying anti-memoir, Taylor's sounding of her own experience and dredging up her worst fears as a young female writer: mawkishness, philistinism, naïveté, stupidity, solipsism".

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