Writers and Their Mothers

Part I. Biographical

1. Shakespeare’s Mother(s)
Hugh Macrae Richmond

2. John Ruskin and Margaret
Anthony Daniels

3. Ambitious Daughter: Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
Gardner McFall

4. Walt Whitman and His Mother
Kenneth Silverman

5. The Maternal Embrace: Samuel Beckett and His Mother May
Margaret Drabble

6. William Golding’s Mother
Judy Carver

7. Voice Rehearsals and Personas in Sylvia’s Letters to Aurelia
Adrianne Kalfopoulou

8. No Villainous Mother—The Life of Eva Larkin
Philip Pullen

9. Robert Lowell: Trapped in Charlotte’s Web
Jeffrey Meyers

Part II. Autobiographical

10. Mother Tongue: A Memoir
Ian McEwan

11. ‘Persistent Ghost’
Anthony Thwaite

12. Living with Mother
Catherine Aird

13. ‘Bring Her Again to Me … ’
Ann Thwaite

14. My Mother, and Friends
Reeve Lindbergh

15. My Mother’s Desk
Martha Oliver-Smith

16. Mater Sagax
Rachel Hadas

17. My Wicked Stepmother
Martin Amis

18. About ‘My Mother Enters the Work Force’
Rita Dove

19. A Shadow in the Grass
Andrew Motion

20. Mrs. Gabbet’s Desk
David Updike

21. Dreams of a Mother and Daughter
Lyndall Gordon

22. Her Programme
Tim Parks

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