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by Mary Meigs


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Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe-the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse-Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her life: "not to marry, to be an artist" and to listen to her "own voices." She speaks of her parents who belonged to "a generation before their own" and how they instilled in her a sense of guilt, locking her in the prison of her self, a prison constructed "with the material of doubt and failure; of shattered dreams and unhappy loves, jealousy, hate, envy and the deadly sins of lovelessness and indifference," but she also tells how she escapes from this prison with the knowledge that her inner sun takes its energy "from love, from creativity." Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait is a book about the exercise of the will, the art of dreaming and the transcendent power of friendship. It is a very wise book written by a woman who waited-and lived-some sixty years before beginning to write.

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  • Title Lily Briscoe
  • Author Mary Meigs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Talonbooks, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Date 1981
  • ISBN 9780889221956 / 0889221952
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.55 x 0.75 in (21.62 x 14.10 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Painters - Canada - Biography, Meigs, Mary
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82101581
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.11

About the author

Mary Meigs
Born in Philadelphia, writer and painter Mary Meigs wrote her first novel, Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, at the age of 60. For the next two decades, Meigs chronicled her extraordinary life as a writer, a painter, an actress, a social activist and a lesbian feminist. In 1988, Meigs played herself in the critically acclaimed film The Company of Strangers, which resulted in the publication of In the Company of Strangers (1991), a fascinating work documenting her experience during the production of the film. Mary Meigs died in 2002 at the age of 85, shortly before the completion of Beyond Recall.

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