A Rope of Vines
Journal from a Greek Island
Published on 13. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
165 pages
978-1-905762-86-6 (ISBN)
Description
"A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are unforgettably pictured; these were the reality outside herself while within there was a conflict of emotion and warring desires. Joy and woe are woven fine in this record: the delight of a multitude of fresh experiences thronging to the senses, the suffering from which she emerges with new understanding of herself and human existence. Both in the intensity and force of the writing and the eloquent island drawings, "A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a distinguished achievement.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905762-86-6 (9781905762866)
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Brenda Chamberlain was born at Bangor in 1912. In 1931 she went to train as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools in London and five years later, after marrying the artist-craftsman John Petts, settled in Caernarfonshire. During the Second World War she worked with her husband on the production of the Caseg Broadsheets. In 1947 she went to live on Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) where she remained until 1961. After six years on the Greek island of Ydra, she returned to Bangor; it was there, depressed and with financial problems, she died from an overdose of sleeping tablets in 1971.