Anita Brookner (born 1928), a British art historian specializing in 18th-and 19th-century painting, was the first woman to hold the rank of Slade Professor at Cambridge University (1967-68). Brookner ...
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With the appearance of her first novel in 1981 Anita Brookner immediately secured a reputation as one of the finest stylists among contemporary writers of fiction in Britain. After a late start as a n...
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Critical Essay by Annie Gottlieb
Anita Brookner's first novel, "The Debut" [published in Great Britain as "A Start in Life," is less in the Romantic tradition than ...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Shrimpton
[A Start in Life is] the sort of book which gives feminist writing a good name. A Start in Life sets the experience of a modern woman academic, working on Balzac,...
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Critical Essay by Robert Taubman
Kitty in Providence is the sort of heroine an author invents in order to subject her to a life of disappointments. These are mitigated for her by academic interests&#...
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Critical Essay by Elaine Jordan
Frances, who begins to write her own story (which we have just read) on the last page of Look at me, is tougher than many reviewers have made her seem. Her melancholy ...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Harvey
For the heroine of Anita Brookner's novel [Look at Me], life is a bitter pill, and no wonder. Endowed with private means, she lives with an elderly housekeeper...
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Critical Essay by Julia Epstein
The heroine of [Look at Me] … catalogues images in a medical library—images of melancholy, of madness, of nightmare, of disease and affliction. Pictures ...
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Critical Essay by Frances Taliaferro
In the past two years, Anita Brookner's novels The Debut and Look at Me have delighted readers here and in Great Britain. With Providence,… she effe...
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Critical Essay by Kathleen Kearns
Kitty Maule is a watcher, reserved, intelligent, and controlled. The subject of her scrutiny, and of … Providence, is her life. It is an interesting enough li...
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The twentieth century was an age in which fiction became a recognized and an extremely popular genre in English literature. An interesting feature in the field of post-war British fiction was the adv...
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THE UNCOMMON READER By Alan Bennett Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $15
To read is to be slightly ill. And the symptoms only worsen when reading something good. A 19th-century novel, a Bleak ...
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Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Critical Essay by Annie Gottlieb
An Examination of Female Protagonists in Anita Brookner Novels
A Royal Appetite for Books
