A Whack of Pies
Matthew Bevis: Dear to Mew, 16 December 2021
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
by Julia Copus.
Faber, 464 pp., £25, April 2021,978 0 571 31353 2 Show More
by Julia Copus.
Faber, 464 pp., £25, April 2021,
Selected Poetry and Prose
by Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus.
Faber, 176 pp., £14.99, October 2019,978 0 571 31618 2 Show More
by Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus.
Faber, 176 pp., £14.99, October 2019,
“... of future troubles. A baby brother died when she was six, and within the year another brother, Richard, died from scarlet fever. As Susannah Clapp put it in her review of Fitzgerald’s biography (LRB, 20 December 1984), Mew liked to play the child, but child’s play was always a peculiarly fraught affair. In one poem she addresses Sorrow and remembers ... ”