Fresca -- A Life in the Making: A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath

by Helen Southworth

This is a detective story, cultural history and love story. It tells a tale of unconventionality, multifarious creativity, and a quest for new ways of living and loving amidst the complexities of Interwar Britain. For Francesca Allinson life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography too gets turned upside down in the making -- how the story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845198212
• ISBN13: 9781845198213
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"