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Linda Proud
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TagsFlorentine Renaissance (8), Platonic philosophy (6), Marsilio Ficino (6), Ancient Egypt (4), occult philosophy (4), historical fiction (4), Shakespeare (4), Mary Renault (4), Contemporary British fiction (2), Lindsay Clarke (2) — see all tags
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Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Lindsay Clarke, Marsilio Ficino, Tim Pears (Shared favorites)
About meHow do you define 'me'? What I do for a living? What I do for love? What I do for duty? OK, let's have a try. My body is older than my spirit, and reflects my love of home-grown food and chocolate. Most of my working life I was freelance in publishing but as the years passed I began to earn money from my writing. Not directly, you understand. In this business you are either a pauper or a millionaire: there's not much in between. But having written and published several books, I began to be commissioned to write others, to write reviews, give talks, mentor aspiring writers and work freelance for literary consultancies. So I live a literary life and am grateful.
Apart from that, I look after the family: one husband, one very elderly mother, two young cats. We do grow our own food - vegetables at the moment, but moving on to chickens soon - and that is time consuming but doubles as a social life.
From home we run Godstow Press, publishing one or two books a year and lavishing them with time and attention. Life is very full and it is always difficult finding writing time, even more so when you've just finished a project that took thirty-three years and are a bit diffident about starting the next.
We live on the outskirts of Oxford, UK, in a wonderful village so lively and interesting that we only go once a month into the city (two miles away) and never go any further than London, which feels like a major expedition. The days of holidays and airports are behind us, cheerfully surrendered for the sake of the planet (although if anyone offered me a good reason for going to Italy I'd be off like a shot).
About my libraryIt is vast. When people visit for the first time, they recoil as they enter the dining room, for it is book-lined from floor to ceiling (and that's only half of it - the rest of it's upstairs). Whether they recoil in horror or delighted surprise determines whether or not they get invited again. While fashion in interior decor dictates bookless homes, we swim against the tide. We're maximalist clutterbugs! There is no chance that all the books will ever be listed here. The best I could do was to select favourites and resolve to add all new acquisitions. But generically the library covers art, history, philosophy, religion, linguistics, economics, mythology, fiction, and a life-long collection of Renaissance books specific to Florence and Italy. I've just started to develop piles. Not the painful kind, but piles of books awaiting the magical appearance of extra bookshelves somewhere.
Homepagehttp://www.lindaproud.com www.godstowpress.co.uk
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Currently readingThe Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination by Patrick Harpur
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Thanks for the note - still digesting the material I gathered during research in Turin last year from March to December - now back in Cape Town
Samten
posted by Samten at 12:08 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2009
by Edgar Guest
We play at our house and have all sorts of fun,
An' there's always a game when supper is done;
An' at our house there's marks on the walls an' the stairs,
An' some terrible scratches on some of the chairs;
An' ma says that our house is surely a fright,
But pa and I say that our house is all right.
At our house we laugh an' we sing an' we shout,
An' whirl all the chairs and the tables about,
An' I rassle my pa an' I get him down too,
An' he's all out of breath when the fightin' is through;
An' ma says our house is surely a sight,
But pa an' I say that our house is all right.
I've been to houses with pa where I had
To sit in a chair like a good little lad,
An' there wasn't a mark on the walls an' the chairs,
An' the stuff that we have couldn't come up to theirs;
An' pa said to ma that for all of their joy
He wouldn't change places and give up his boy.
They never have races nor rassles nor fights,
Coz they have no children to play with at nights;
An' their walls are all clean and their curtains hang straight,
An' everything's shiny an' right up to date;
But pa says with all of its racket an' fuss,
He'd rather by far live at our house with us.
posted by theoldman at 11:51 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2009
posted by margad at 6:18 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2008
posted by margad at 5:26 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2008
It's based in the UK, but has a worldwide membership. (I'm American, and currently edit their book review magazine.) In fact, that's where I heard about your novel originally - through a review that HNS published quite a while ago.
Sarah
posted by ariadne02 at 9:23 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2007
How nice to hear from you - I enjoyed reading A Tabernacle for the Sun when I read it some years ago. Best of luck with the summer course at Oxford. It's encouraging to hear that historical fiction will be getting some positive attention that way. Please let me know when registration opens, and I can help spread the word (I can put a notice in the Historical Novel Society magazine, for instance, and on the website). If you end up ordering my book, I hope you enjoy it!
Best wishes,
Sarah
posted by ariadne02 at 10:09 am (EST) on Nov 18, 2007