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About Me
- Peta Mayer
- I'm writing my PhD on contemporary British novelist and French Romantic art historian Anita Brookner, best known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. My PhD re-assembles this description in ways that make her look good. http://www.petamayer.com petamayer@gmail.com
80-word PhD
Resources- Mine
The Army
The Tools
- The Queering of 19th Century Literature
- Chronotopes
- The Paratext
- The Reading Formation
Resources- Online
Melbourne Uni
Other things
2 comments:
This is from the Wikipedia. Perhaps you know more than they do.
"Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner owing to anti-German sentiment in England. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, secular Jews, opened their house to Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution during the 1930s and World War II. Brookner, an only child, has never married and took care of her parents as they aged."
I believe you have misspelled Anita Brookner's mother's name. Also the family appears not to have fled Nazi Germany. AB's father arrived in England as a young man (Anita was born in 1928-do the math) and her mother was born in England (again do the math). I would like to know if AB was born with the name Brookner.
I believe she was.
As I said, perhaps you are more informed.
Hi there,
Thanks for your comments. I've made a few changes to my draft.
As for the issues you raise specifically, yes, I'm aware that AB was born in London eleven years before WWII started. But the family were European immigrants (I never said Nazi Germany) and I believe that there was an escalating threat in Europe in the years leading up to the actual declaration of war in 1939.
Like you, I also believe Brookner was born with the name Brookner. I have never meant to imply otherwise.
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