This January Tale – A Historical Novel of the Norman Conquest by Bryher
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Overview: In This January Tale, Bryher returns to the fateful winter of 1066 which followed the Battle of Hastings when the Norman conquerors invaded Eng-land and began to drive loyal and stubborn Englishmen into exile. Historians overwhelmingly focus on the Normans, as if the Conquest had been an unquestioned advance in civilization. Bryher, stoutly on the side of the vanquished, shows what was lost. After Hastings, the city of Exeter was besieged and taken. For the followers of Harold and the Godwins, whose homes were ravished as citadel after citadel had fallen before the foreign onslaught, the only way out was by open and stormy sea. Bryher’s compassion goes to all, in this aftermath of Hastings — to those who remain, to those who risk flight, to those who return. In the magic of her identification with the plight of people nine hundred years ago, she evokes flawlessly their emotions and sensibilities and re-creates the reality of field and forest, city and sea, as they were to the Saxons when their freedom vanished.
Bryher (1894–1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein’s work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler’s Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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