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Hilary Spurling
The Girl from the Fiction Department
 
Sonia Orwell was a woman of great beauty, power and presence who married George Orwell three months before he died. She became his sole heir and literary executor and has been blamed for exploiting his name and copyrights, and squandering his fortune. Hilary Spurling argues that this is a travesty of the truth based on misconception, distortion and ignorance, and argues that Sonia Orwell was, in fact, a heroic woman who devoted much of her life to righting wrongs. This is a real-life fairy-tale with a brilliant, larger-than-life heroine.
 
Hamish Hamilton 2002 hbk £9.99 ISBN 0-241-14165-6
Penguin 2003 pbk £5.99 ISBN 0-14-100817-2
 
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth221
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,721430,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4461306,00.html

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Hilary Spurling
Matisse the Master : A Life of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
 
This is the second and final volume of the first true biography of Henri Matisse. Until publication of The Unknown Matisse (volume one), the few facts known about Matisse's life had been distorted by inaccuracy, misunderstanding and glaring gaps. Hilary Spurling's biography investigates the secret life of Matisse, whose painting shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art, and in this second volume, she tells the story of his maturity as an artist and the relationship between his life and art between 1909 and 1954, his glory years.
 
Hamish Hamilton 2005 hbk £25.00 ISBN 0-241-13339-4
 
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