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Jan Morris
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Eight Untitled Chapters
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
The Author
“Clements has a light, fast style, and does a good job of balancing the parts . . .” –New Welsh Review
“. . . the life and substantial literary output of Jan Morris deserve more. In Paul Clements’s lively book – not a biography, but the first major study of this renowned author – they are given comprehensive coverage, and she emerges as a passionate, driven character, ever open to new experience, and literally full of the joys of life.” –Irish Times
“Clements has done a scholarly job of producing a catalogue of Morris’s works and has succeeded in giving readers, old and new, a flavour of her voice and concerns. This includes his attention to what he brilliantly refers to as her characteristic ‘word-smithery’. He also answers the inevitable readers’ question, ‘from where does she derive this wealth of information?’: ‘she peruses telephone directories for information on local names, copies down graffiti and inscriptions from war memorials and gravestones . . .’ (p. 86). Finally, a journalist himself, Clements is at his finest when tracing the influence of Morris’s own journalistic background on her travel writing.” –www.gwales.com
“. . . the first major study of Jan Morris, a fascinating examination of her writing and her extraordinary life.” –Irish News
“. . . extremely well-researched . . .” –Planet
Paul Clements is a BBC radio and television journalist based at BBC Belfast. He has also worked for the BBC World Service and BBC Television News in London. He also sits on the National Executive Council for the National Union of Journalists, as well as its Broadcasting Industrial Council. He is a Fellow of Green College, Oxford. he lives in Belfast and he was born in Augher, County Tyrone. His previous publications include Irish Shores: a Journey Round the Rim of Ireland.
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