Kathleen and Frank.

Description:

"It is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through letters and Kathleen's diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change--Queen Victoria's funeral, Blériot's flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland--the period that shaped Isherwood himself. As a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents' lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern."--Amazon.com.

subjects: English Authors,  Family,  Family relationships,  $10.00,  Social life and customs,  Isherwood, christopher, 1904-1986,  Authors, english,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)

People: Christopher Isherwood (1904-),  Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986),  Francis Edward Bradshaw Isherwood (1869-1915),  Frank Isherwood (1869-1915),  Kathleen Isherwood (1868-1960),  Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood (1868-1960),  Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood (1868-1960)

Times: 20th century,  2th century