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Perhaps it is because we know nothing first-hand of our own beginning or ending that myths of origin and creation, those of the afterlife and resurrection, both delight and comfort us. Other myths, such as romantic and social ones, we often see working in our lives, or if we don’t and are oblivious to them, we may suffer their blind-siding. To make things more difficult, social myths which justify the uses of power — imperialism, patriotism, nationalism, social Darwinism, racism, sexism, classism — sometimes compete with romantic myths, such as the myth of the hero and the quest for perfection and the ideal, but they may also be reinforced by them. Sometimes they’re substitutes, sometimes complements.
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A Bibliography of Writings by Isabel Colegate
Novels
The Blackmailer (London: Anthony Blond, 1958).
A Man of Power (London: Anthony Blond, 1960).
The Great Occasion (London: Anthony Blond, 1962).
Statues in a Garden (London: Bodley Head, 1964. New York: Knopf, 1966).
Orlando King (London: Bodley Head, 1968. New York: Knopf, 1969).
Orlando at the Brazen Threshold (London: Bodley Head, 1971).
Agatha (London: Bodley Head, 1973).
News from the City of the Sun (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979).
The Shooting Party (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. New York: Knopf, 1980).
Three Novels: The Blackmailer, A Man of Power, The Great Occasion (New York and London: Viking Penguin, 1984).
The Orlando Trilogy: Orlando, Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha (New York and London: Viking Penguin, 1984).
A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. New York: Viking Penguin,1985).
Deceits of Time (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988).
The Summer of the Royal Visit (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. New York: Viking, 1992).
Articles and Reviews
‘The Youngest of the Young’, New Review (Spring 1978): 19–23.
‘Servant to Royals’ [End of An Era: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles from 1887 to 1920], Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (19 September 1986): 1124.
‘How Nice to See Her Again’ [The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works by Violet Powell]. The Spectator (8 October 1988): 34–5.
‘Untitled’ [Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by the Knight of the Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson]. The Spectator (18 March 1989): 28.
‘Devilish Brown Dog’, The Threepenny Review (Spring 1989): 10–11.
‘One Groom, Two Horses, No Money’ [Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff]. The Washington Post Book World (3 September 1989): 1–2.
‘The Agonies and the Ex’s’ [Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd]. The Spectator (16 June 1990): 31–2.
‘Exaggerations Rather Than Fantasies’ [The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende]. The Spectator (16 February 1991): 31–2.
‘Exceptionally Sane Most of the Time’ [A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909 [Virginia Woolf, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska]. The New York Times Book Review (17 February 1991): 5.
‘After So Many Deaths, I Live and Write’ [Margery Allingham: A Biography by Julia Thorogood], The Spectator (26 October 1991): 40.
‘Writer in Residence: House of Character’, House and Garden (December 1991): 67–8.
A Bibliography of Writings about Isabel Colegate Articles and Reviews
Beatty, Jack, ‘Brief Reviews’ [The Shooting Party], The New Republic (18 April 1981): 38–9.
Bernays, Anne, ‘Nancy’s Dark and Violent Love’ [A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory]. The New York Times Book Review (17 November 1985): 33.
Brookner, Anita, ‘The Perils of Biography’ [Deceits of Time]. The Spectator (10 September 1988): 34–5.
Coleman, John, ‘Tea in Rumania’ [A Man of Power], The Spectator (29 January 1960): 44.
Craig, Amanda, ‘How Isabel Became the Cinema’s Shooting Star’, The Times (6 February 1985): 11.
Crosland, Margaret, ‘Some Women Writers’ [The Orlando Trilogy]. British Book News (May 1982): 273–8.
Duguid, Lindsay, ‘Barking Outsiders’ [Deceits of Time], TLS (2 September 1988): 953.
Hosmer, Robert E. Jr., ‘Isabel Colegate’, British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, ed. Janet Todd (New York: Continuum, 1989): 151–2.
Hosmer, Robert E. Jr., ‘Isabel Colegate’, An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, ed. Paul AA and June Schlueter (New York: Garland, 1988): 115–17.
Jackson, Katherine Gauss, ‘Statues in a Garden’ [Statues in a Garden], Harper’s Magazine (April 1966): 122–3.
King, Francis, ‘Big Shots’ [The Shooting Party], The Spectator (13 September 1980): 25–6.
King, Francis, ‘Communal’ [News from the City of the Sun], The Spectator (21 July 1979): 24.
Lesser, Wendy, ‘The Character as Victim’ [Three Novels: The Blackmailer, A Man of Power, The Great Occasion], Hudson Review (Autumn 1984): 471–2.
Littler, Frank, ‘Sir Aylmer Sees It Through’ [Statues in a Garden], The New York Times Book Review (20 March 1966): 37.
Mallon, Thomas, ‘Over Her Head in Nazis’ [Deceits of Time], The New York Times Book Review (11 December 1988): 7.
Mellors, John, ‘Living in Love’ [A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory], The Listener (30 May 1985): 32.
Motion, Andrew, ‘Beaters Turned Game’ [The Shooting Party], TLS (12 September 1980): 983.
Naughton, John, ‘Good Shot’ [The Shooting Party], The Listener (4 September 1980): 313.
Parson, Ann, ‘Brief Reviews’ [A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory], Boston Review (February 1986): 27–8.
Pippet, Aileen, ‘The Hero Had Hammer Toes’ [Orlando King], The New York Times Book Review (25 May 1969): 46.
Raven, Simon, ‘Outriders of the Apocalypse’ [The Great Occasion], The Spectator (4 May 1962): 597.
Richardson, Maurice, ‘Damned Up North’ [The Great Occasion], The New Statesman (4 May 1962): 649–50.
Sage, Lorna, ‘Havoc on the Campus’ [The Shooting Party], The Observer (7 September 1980): 29.
Swartley, Ariel, ‘Class Acts’ [A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory], The Village Voice Literary Supplement (December 1985): 14.
Taliaferro, Frances, ‘Colegate’s Stories In a Minor Key’ [A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory], The Washington Post Book World (12 January 1986): 9; 13.
Turvey, Sarah, ‘Isabel Colegate,’ Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14: 235–43.
Wade, Rosalind, ‘Agatha’ [Agatha], Contemporary Review (January 1974): 46–7.
Wall, Stephen, ‘New Novels’ [Statues in a Garden], The Listener (27 August 1964): 317.
Webb, W. L. ‘Upstairs, Downstairs Before the Fall’ [The Shooting Party], TLS (13 February 1989): 10.
Wickenden, Dorothy, ‘Social Climbers, Family Blunders’ [The Shooting Party], The New Republic (28 May 1984): 38–41.
Wilce, Gillian, ‘No Abiding City’ [News from the City of the Sun], The New Statesman (13 July 1979): 63.
Interviews
Hebert, Rosemary, ‘PW Interviews Isabel Colegate’, Publishers Weekly (13 December 1985): 55–6.
Ross, Jean W., ‘CA Interviews: Isabel Colegate’, Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 22: 84–7.
Miscellaneous
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 8: 108; Volume 22: 81–7.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 36, 108–15.
Thornton, Lesley, ‘A Shot in the Park’, Observer Magazine (20 January 1985): 12–13;15.
Webb, W. L., ‘Upstairs, Downstairs before the Fall’, Guardian (13 February 1981): 10.
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Averitt, B.T. (1993). The Strange Clarity of Distance: History, Myth, and Imagination in the Novels of Isabel Colegate. In: Hosmer, R.E. (eds) Contemporary British Women Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22565-1_5
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