Old Ladies
D.A.N. Jones, 20 August 1992
Dear Departed: A Memoir
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria LouiseAscher.
Aidan Ellis, 346 pp., £18, April 1992,0 85628 186 7 Show More
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria LouiseAscher.
Aidan Ellis, 346 pp., £18, April 1992,
Anna, Soror
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Harvill, 256 pp., £7.99, May 1992,0 00 271222 9 Show More
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Harvill, 256 pp., £7.99, May 1992,
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Aidan Ellis, 224 pp., £18, June 1992,9780856281594 Show More
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Aidan Ellis, 224 pp., £18, June 1992,
Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
by Doris Grumbach.
Norton, 256 pp., £13.95, April 1992,0 393 03009 1 Show More
by Doris Grumbach.
Norton, 256 pp., £13.95, April 1992,
Anything Once
by Joan Wyndham.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 178 pp., £15.95, March 1992,9781856191296 Show More
by Joan Wyndham.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 178 pp., £15.95, March 1992,
“... Marguerite Yourcenar was a highly honoured French writer, the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française, but her mother came from the Low Countries. The mother died in 1903, eight days after the daughter’s birth: her married name was Fernande de Crayencour (from which the pen name ‘Yourcenar’ was constructed) and her maiden name was de Cartier de Marchienne ... ”
