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Margaret Crosland

Author of Colette: The Difficulty of Loving

24+ Works 256 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Margaret Crosland has been a freelance writer and translator since the 1950s. She has written several previous books

Includes the names: Marga Crosland, Crosland Margaret, Margaret CROSLAND editor

Works by Margaret Crosland

Colette: The Difficulty of Loving (1973) 58 copies

Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture, and Power (2000) 37 copies

Piaf (1985) 29 copies

The Mysterious Mistress: The Life and Legend of Jane Shore (2006) 22 copies

A Cry from the Heart: The Biography of Edith Piaf (2002) 17 copies

Women of iron and velvet, and the books they wrote in France (1976) 16 copies

Jean Cocteau: A Biography (1955) 15 copies

The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico (2000) 8 copies

A guide to literary Europe (1966) 8 copies

Sade's Wife: The Woman Behind the Marquis (1995) 7 copies

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work (1992) 6 copies

Colette: A Provincial in Paris (2000) 6 copies

Beyond the Lighthouse: English women novelists in the twentieth century (1981) 5 copies

Ballet Carnival (1957) 4 copies

Raymond Radiguet : A Biographical Study with Selections from His Work (1976) 3 copies

Ballet Lovers' Dictionary (1962) 3 copies

Louise of Stolberg: Countess of Albany. First Edition. (1962) 3 copies

A Traveller's Guide to Literary Europe (Volume One) (1965) 2 copies

A Traveller's Guide to Literary Europe: volume three 2 copies

A traveller's guide to literary Europe, Vol Two 1 copy

The happy yes. An anthology of marriage proposals grave and gay 1 copy

Home book of opera (1957) 1 copy

Meeting and Parting 1941-2003: New and Selected Poems (2004) 1 copy

Strange Tempe. Poems (1946) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley] (1949) — Introduction, some editions — 4,540 copies

Earth (1887) — Translator, some editions — 734 copies

The Crimes of Love (1800) — Translator, some editions — 545 copies

Hebdomeros (1929) — Translator, some editions — 281 copies

Retreat From Love (1907) — Preface — 196 copies

The Other Woman: A Short Novel and Stories (1971) — Translator, some editions — 137 copies

The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade (1965) — Translator, some editions; Translator, some editions — 112 copies

A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural (1964) — Translator, some editions — 106 copies

The World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon (1989) — Translator, some editions — 89 copies

The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico (1965) — Translator, some editions — 59 copies

Precolumbian Terracottas (1966) — Translator, some editions — 49 copies

Secrets of the Gotha (1964) — Translator, some editions — 41 copies

Across the Acheron (1985) — Translator, some editions — 36 copies

The Marquis de Sade Reader (1991) — Editor — 33 copies

The Leather Jacket: Stories by Cesare Pavese (1980) — Introduction, some editions — 31 copies

European carpets (1966) — Translator, some editions — 29 copies

The Vampire: An Anthology (1963) — English Editor, some editions — 28 copies

Vivaldi's Venice (2002) — Translator, some editions — 22 copies

Paris Album, 1900-14 (1987) — Translator, some editions — 18 copies

Germany (1955) — Translator, some editions — 10 copies

A mania for solitude : selected poems, 1930-1950 (1969) — Translator, some editions — 7 copies

Quartet (1964) — Translator, some editions — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Other names: Leonard de Saint-Yves
Birthdate: 1920-06-17
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Shropshire, England, UK
Occupations: translator
literary biographer

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COLLETTE: A Provincial in Paris by COLLETTE

A collection of Collette's reminiscences, conversations, letters arranged by theme.

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Cyss | May 24, 2009 |

Madame De Pompadour: Sex, Culture and the Power Game by Margaret Crosland

Concise, accessible biography of Louis XV's Favourite, Madame Pompadour. Far more than just a mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson took on the rigid etiquette and power play of Versailles to wield social and political influence even after she and the King were little more than good friends. Intelligent, beautiful, shrewd and creative, the Pompadour was a fascinating woman, and Margaret Crosland presents her to the reader with ease and admiration for her subject. Would have liked to see more portraits of Madame Pompadour, particularly those mentioned in the text, but a good introduction to her all the same.… (more)

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AdonisGuilfoyle | Jan 12, 2009 |

Collette: The difficulty of loving by Margaret Crosland

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