Category Archives: Reflections on a Marine Venus
“The Room Seems to Have Come into Its Own at Last”: One Afternoon in the Library of Patrick Leigh Fermor (11 June 2011).
Maggie Rainey-Smith has been kind enough to share images and memories from her 7 November 2007 visit with the late Patrick Leigh Fermor. In a recent post at “A Curious Half Hour,” Maggie has published a set of photographs and … Continue reading
“Durrell Can Evoke Place Better Than Any Writer I Know”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Lawrence Durrell (4 January 2011).
Greg Lawrence’s new book, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Macmillan 2011), details Jackie Onassis’s career working for Viking and Doubleday. Onassis’s esteem for Lawrence Durrell’s travel writing will especially interest readers here at Durrell 2012. In … Continue reading
