The Sway of Winter Biography educated and economically independent writers

educated and economically independent writers whose lives and literary collaboration were unique manifestations of late-nineteenth century feminist strivings toward political and sexual equality’

they find themselves diverted to France- to the fields ‘made liquid by the blood and guts of boy soldiers’

a review of Lowell and an intimate sketch of Berryman

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The Sway of Winter Biography educated and economically independent writersThe Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit, a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to the island of Inis Breac to paint, and to recover from a suffocating relationship. Geoff, an English widower, shattered by years of hard drinking after his wifes drowning, runs the local bookshop. Birgit visits Africa in a quest to decide her future in working among the deprived, but finds there only a mirror of an inner poverty. This finely wrought debut novel