ROSAMOND LEHMANN - INSCRIBED BOOK SIGNED 12/1948 - HFSID 255302
Price: $220.00
ROSAMOND LEHMANN
She inscribes a copy of Poems, 1943-1947, by C. Day Lewis.
Lehmann was having an affair with Lewis when he wrote these poems, and when she
inscribed the book.
Inscribed book signed: "For Miriam/from/Rosamond/Love/Xmas 1948".
5½x8, 93 pages. Poems, 1943-1947, by C. Day Lewis. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1948. Hardcover. Rosamond Lehmann (1907-1989) was an English novelist
whose first book, Dusty Answer (1927), was a best seller,
controversial at the time for its open portrayal of gay and lesbian
relationships at Cambridge, her alma mater. In all she wrote seven novels and
a short story collection, translated two French works into English, and authored
some nonfiction, including an autobiography. Her only play, No More
Music, opened in 1939. Her novels The Weather in the Streets
(1936) and The Echoing Grove (1953) were made into movies, the latter
re-titled Heart of Me (2002). Lehmann was a member of the "Bloomsbury
set," which included literature luminaries such as Virginia Woolf and Lytton
Strachey. She was honored as a CBE in 1982. Lehmann had a long and
tempestuous affair with C. Day Lewis from 1941 to 1950, when Lewis fell for, and
married actress Jill Balcon. (Lewis and Balcon were the parents of actor Daniel
Day-Lewis (b. 1957). Corners and edges slightly worn. Pages toned. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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