· Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original www.doorway.ru: New York Review Books. · Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title character an impossibly dour and correct old woman is just one of the chilly, eccentric relatives that the teenage narrator has to endure.3/5(1). Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title character an impossibly dour and correct old woman is just one of the chilly, eccentric relatives that the teenage narrator has to endure/5(55).
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses. Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title character an impossibly dour and correct old woman is just one of the chilly, eccentric relatives that the teenage narrator has to endure. Other loved ones include a deranged grandmother. Great Granny Webster was published in and drew on Blackwood's own miserable childhood, depicting a strict and loveless old woman's destructive impact on her www.doorway.ru was short-listed for the Booker Prize losing out to Staying On by Paul Scott.. Great Granny Webster is a deceptively short book which is in some ways a series of character studies, portraying four generations of.
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. Great Granny Webster is probably her best-known and most admired work. Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, first published in I used the edition published by New York Review Books Classic. Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.
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