Died. J. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Her father was a semi-retired managing director of a Midland chemical firm. She was one of six children and they lived in a house on the banks of the Avon in Warwickshire/5. · There’s something about the work of Barbara Comyns that makes discovering her novels feel like stumbling across a well-kept secret. My own introduction to Comyns was in the form of her second novel, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. I was living in Kentish Town in North-west London at the time, only ten minutes away from Haverstock Hill, the road on which the novel’s year-old . · Barbara Comyns's. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. Until I received Our Spoons Came from Woolworths for this review, I had never heard of, let alone read, Barbara Comyns. Her writing was so unexpectedly intriguing that I immediately read her next two novels. These works were originally published in the s, reissued in the s, and are now living a third life, with The Author: Lauren Goldenberg.
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns - review O ur Spoons Came From Woolworths is the story of a journey from a world of naivety, immaturity, ignorance, and simplicity into a. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths also raises questions of what it means to be an artist and the necessity of providing for a family, and the gender politics at play therein. Kathryn Davis wrote in her introduction to The Vet's Daughter, "To read Barbara Comyns is to feel the exquisite thrill of discovery, as well as the pride of the. Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Publication Date: Novem Pages: Genre: fiction Project: a century of women "I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures.
There’s something about the work of Barbara Comyns that makes discovering her novels feel like stumbling across a well-kept secret. My own introduction to Comyns was in the form of her second novel, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. I was living in Kentish Town in North-west London at the time, only ten minutes away from Haverstock Hill, the road on which the novel’s year-old heroine Sophia Fairclough and her husband Charles set up home as a newly married couple in the s. Barbara Comyns’ novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (first published in ) has attracted considerable critical attention recently, much of it a consequence of reissues by various publishing houses of several Comyns novels – notably NYRB Classics in autumn Because it’s so easy to find online reviews with plot summaries, I’ll simply discuss here some features of the novel that seemed to me so remarkable. "Our Spoons Came From Woolworths" is about year-old Sophia who gets married to Charles, a young painter, in the s in London. After only a few weeks of post-marital bliss reality sets in when Sophia gets pregnant and it turns out that Charles is a lazy, ego-centric narcissist who doesn't even dream of getting a job and rather sends his pregnant wife to work so that they can buy milk and bread and pay rent.
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