Anna and Teresa Campbell were the daughters of the handsome young
South African poet and writer, Roy Campbell (1901-1957), and his
strikingly beautiful English wife, Mary Garman (1898-1979). In
their frank and moving memoirs, Anna and Tess recall the
extraordinary, and often very difficult, lives they shared with
their exceptional parents. The Campbells experienced first-hand the
political and social upheavals of post-World War I Europe, the
cementing of white power in the Union of South Africa, the rise of
communism and-as recent converts to Catholicism - the Spanish Civil
War and World War II. Their lives also intersected with profound
artistic and philosophical changes and they mixed with some of the
key figures in European, South African and American artistic
circles, including Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, the Sitwells,
Augustus John, Bernard Meninsky, Jacob Epstein, Laurie Lee,
Tristram Hillier, Dylan Thomas, Laurens van der Post, William
Plomer, Uys Krige, Hart Crane.... About the editor - - Judith Lutge
Coullie is Professor of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Her publications include a compilation of South African women's
life writing (The Closest of Strangers), an edited collection of
critical essays on Breyten Breytenbach (a.k.a. Breyten
Breytenbach), a CD on the poet Roy Campbell (Campbell in Context)
and edited interviews on southern African auto/biography (Selves in
Question). "Remembering Roy Campbell makes a significant
contribution to understanding South Africa's best-known poet." /
Peter F. Alexander, author of Roy Campbell: A Critical Biography.
"The editor's introduction to the two memoirs serves as a further
corrective to erroneous assumptions about Campbell's life and
poetry and serves as a background against which the memoirs may be
read." / Michael Hanke, author of Roy Campbell, Ein Solitar:
Interpretationen Seiner Versdichtung
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