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Susanna Johnston
An elegiac literary memoir set in Lucca, Tuscany, and how Henry James's last lover led to a lifelong passion for the region.
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Sensuous, darkly funny bordering on demonic, Patricia and Malise is a wicked love story set in 1950s Italy that skillfully plays with British obsessions.
A comic romp about a mid-fifty year old woman who, having been rather lost in her London life, suddenly, out of the blue, inherits a marvellous Elizabethan manor house in…
The mistress of black comedy returns, pulling no punches, laying bare everything that’s pompous, conceited, vain or deluded.
Light-hearted and moving story of the beautiful friendship between John Fleming and Hugh Honour, the last great British eccentrics, and Susanna Johnston, centring around the Villa Marchio in Tuscany where…
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This mischievous roman a clef revolves around the interactions of five main characters. Victoria, barely twenty, finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind…
Julie Johnston
Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book AwardSusanna’s Quill is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author…
Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.
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Upon Susanna Fein's retirement, this book brings together essays by eleven scholars who are indebted to Fein's research. Authors discuss Middle English manuscripts, lyrics, Chaucer, Pearl, multilingualism, gender, proverbs, and…
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