The life of Betty Trask (1893 - 1983): fiction, fame, and Frome

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Merchant, P. 2020. The life of Betty Trask (1893 - 1983): fiction, fame, and Frome. in: Frome Society Year Book, volume 23 Frome Frome Society for Local Study. pp. 70 - 78
AuthorsMerchant, P.
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This piece ponders the many paradoxes that attach to the Frome author Betty Trask: a purveyor of middlebrow romances who pitches her tent in the territory of both Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf; a writer who went global, at the hands of Mario Vargas Llosa, by virtue of being incorrigibly provincial.

KeywordsBetty Trask; Middlebrow romances
Page range70 - 78
Year2020
Book titleFrome Society Year Book, volume 23
PublisherFrome Society for Local Study
Output statusPublished
Place of publicationFrome
ISBN9781916264717
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PrintJun 2020
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Accepted02 Jan 2020
Deposited19 Jun 2020
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