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10 October 2013 – 2 February 2014 : Inspired by Lisa
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Approach, interview with Peter Owen for Dazed & Confused, 2010 :"The author of Ice, who died in 1968 with enough heroin stockpiled in her house to kill the whole street, did so on the night she was expected at one of Peter Owen’s parties. When the police broke in the
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has never been regarded as a significant work of proto-feminist literature, although scholars occasionally include it on lists of science fiction written by women before the explosion of the genre in the 1970s. The novel's surrealist form demands a different sort of reading than that of science
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fiction driven by narrative causality, but the text's obsessive insistence on linking the global political violence of the Cold War with the threateningly lethal sexual objectification of Woman and depicting them as two poles of the same suicidal collective will to destroy life makes
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Bellevue Sanatorium, and had a close personal relationship with her longtime psychiatrist Karl Bluth. In her fiction and journalism Kavan promoted a radical politics of madness, giving voice to the disenfranchised and marginalized psychiatric patient and presaging the
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223:; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a
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door, they found the gold invitation, so Owen was the first person they called. "I didn’t realise at the time that I was dealing with a really major writer who would become a cult figure", Owen admits. ".
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approach to first experience a relationship, emotion, or life situation then make a work of art that marked that experience. She considered these memorials a justification for having lived." .
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Kavan continued to undergo sporadic inpatient treatments for heroin addiction and in her later years in London lived as a virtual recluse. She enjoyed a late triumph in 1967 with her novel
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Her parents travelled frequently and Helen Woods grew up in Europe and the United States. As an adult she remembered her childhood as lonely and neglected. Her father died by
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by DJ Britton is a play about the relationship between Rhys Davies and Anna Kavan. It was presented as a premiere during the Rhys Davies Short Story
Conference 2013 held in
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Kavan's reception as a 'woman writer' has been complicated by her perceived lack of attention to gender politics, and her fiction has most often been interpreted as
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and was found dead on 5 December 1968. The previous night she had failed to attend a reception in honor of Anaïs Nin at the home of her London-based publisher
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to connect the objects and play out "a brutal tale of love and loss set against the approaching threat of the ice". It has been first presented in 2012 at
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definitely heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing. Her development of "nocturnal language". involved the lexicon of dreams and addiction,
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In 2009 the Anna Kavan
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exhibition displayed thirty-six paintings created by Kavan drawn from the McFarlin Library Special Collections, University of Tulsa. The exhibition
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The first six of her novels gave little indication of the experimental and disturbing nature of her later work published after her detox treatment.
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novel brought critical acclaim. It is her best-known novel, still puzzling the reader for its strangeness and nowadays rather introduced as a
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gets it's title from an Anna Kavan short story of the same name. The ninth song on the record, "Peel St.," is based on Kavan's novel
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based on ambiguous narratives. They developed an allegorical piece of object theatre draws on the life and works of Kavan using
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and related material. Other archives contain letters from Kavan to publishers include the William A Bradley Literary Agency,
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at the Freud Museum in London (2013), her work was presented alongside other female explorers of the mind, among them:
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period), situate her within the literary and intellectual context of her times, and chart her legacy as a writer.
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Pleasures of New Writing: An Anthology of Poems, Stories, and Other Prose Pieces from the Pages of New Writing
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sent Kavan his initial response, neither rejecting nor accepting her text, he described it as a cross between
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Brian Aldiss, The Detached Retina : aspects of SF and Fantasy published Syracuse University Press, 1995.
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of a wealthy British family. Her father was Claude Charles Edward Woods (died c.1915), a brewer, educated at
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on their album "The Glass Bottom Boat" after Anna Kavan. The song was subsequently released as a remix by
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Although popularly supposed to have died of a heroin overdose, Kavan died of heart failure at her home in
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Ironside Virginia, "Julia and the Bazooka" Peter Owen Publishers reprint 2007, introduction.
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Living alone in London during the mid-1920s, she began studying painting at the
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David Callard, The Case of Anna Kavan, biography published by Peter Owen, 1992.
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After her return to the UK, Kavan began treatment with the German psychiatrist
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Sanatorium Bellevue : a part of the glass menagerie, the mirror of madness
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This article is about the British novelist. For the English actress, see
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files in the Random House Archives at the University of Reading and the
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was an admirer and unsuccessfully pursued a correspondence with Kavan.
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The largest collection of archival material from Kavan is held by the
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L Timmel Duchamp, What's the Story? Reading Anna Kavan's Ice, LCRW14:
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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Jennifer Strum, Anna Kavan's New Zealand, Random House 2009 (p16)
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Floriane Pochon, French artist, created a sound artwork untitled
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in 1888. He was the son of Matthew Charles Woods of Holeyn Hall,
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Anaïs Nin, The Novel of the Future published by Mcmillan, 1968.
478:(1970). It was Bluth who arranged for Kavan to be treated at
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry
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Archive in Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections.
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Machines in the Head: the Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
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The World Within: Fiction Illuminating Neuroses of Our Time
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In an installation named Anna, the Wales-based artist duo
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associated with modernist novelists. Her best-known novel
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A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan
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1801:Ironside, Virginia. "Kavan, Anna (1901–1968)".
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364:incarcerations throughout Kavan's life for both
16:British novelist, short story writer and painter
1617:"The Mercedes." In London Magazine 1970, 17–21.
1588:Springtime Two: An Anthology of Current Trends
724:an interesting feminist literary experiment."
1856:. Vol. I. Burke's Peerage. p. 449.
1411:Horizon : A Review of Literature and Art
656:The Unconventional Anna Kavan: Works on Paper
441:, an influential literary magazine edited by
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1807:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
1283:(Southport, Lancashire: Angus Downie, 1956,
1251:(New York : Doubleday, US ed., 1947) –
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295:Disregarding her daughter's desire to go to
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1629:The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams
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1781:"WOODS, CLAUDE CHARLES EDWARD (WDS885CC)"
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337:by racing car drivers she took up with.
2281:20th-century British short story writers
1500:"New Zealand: An Answer to an Inquiry."
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406:in 1940. The stay inspired her novella,
327:London Central School of Arts and Crafts
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1304:A Bright Green Field and Other Stories
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2191:Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2044:A Working Canon of Slipstream Writing
1479:"Department of Slight Confusion." In
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1892:. Oxford: Parker and Co – via
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1132:(London : Jonathan Cape, 1929,
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1596:"Five More Days to Countdown." In
589:Kavan's House in Peel Street London
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1267:(with K. T. Bluth) (London :
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1295:(London : Peter Owen, 1957,
1400:(London : Peter Owen, 2019)
1394:(London : Peter Owen, 2007)
1386:(London : Peter Owen, 1995)
1378:(London : Peter Owen, 1994)
1362:(London : Peter Owen, 1975)
1354:(London : Peter Owen, 1970)
1255:(London: Cassel, UK ed., 1948)
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2088:"Bright Green Field by Squid"
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1581:Stories for the Dead of Night
1531:"Two New Zealand Pieces." In
1423:'The Case of Bill Williams',
1367:My Madness: Selected Writings
404:Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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2181:Anna Kavan by Jennifer Sturm
1939:gallery.commandoveterans.org
1935:"Pte Bryan Gratney Ferguson"
1821:UK public library membership
1603:"Julia and the Bazooka." In
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1091:Resources in other libraries
435:Mill Hill Emergency Hospital
333:where she was introduced to
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1785:A Cambridge Alumni Database
1636:The Vintage Book of Amnesia
1586:"A Bright Green Field." In
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1714:National Library of Wales
1600:XXXI, no. 1, 1968, 45–49.
1518:IX, no. 53, 1944, 323–35.
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1663:Anna Kavan's New-Zealand
1624:, 1 October 1971, 75–83.
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998:Haunt the Upper Hallways
861:Princess Marie Bonaparte
254:Jesus College, Cambridge
2266:British women novelists
1852:Burke, Bernard (1965).
1538:"Brave New Worlds." In
1488:New Zealand New Writing
1062:in Wakefield, England.
912:Theater and performance
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753:stream of consciousness
497:and lifelong friend of
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1748:Autobiographical novel
1634:"The Zebra Struck" In
1610:"World of Heroes." In
1579:"Palace of Sleep." In
1526:Stories of the Forties
1409:All work published in
1344:Published posthumously
1060:The Hepworth Wakefield
833:Theroigne de Méricourt
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1514:"Face of My People."
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476:Julia and the Bazooka
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1687:publisher Peter Owen
1545:"The Professor." In
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994:The Declining Winter
685:Anna Kavan Symposium
422:three times and the
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1753:Nonlinear narrative
1683:Harry Ransom Center
1679:University of Tulsa
1569:"The Red Dogs." In
1564:Penguin New Writing
1562:"The Red Dogs." In
1555:"I Am Lazarus." In
1524:"I Am Lazarus." In
1507:"The Big Bang." In
1253:Sleep Has His House
1244:Sleep Has His House
1022:Squid's 2021 album
1007:based on the novel
982:Sleep Has His House
938:Music and sound art
908:on her early life.
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480:Sanatorium Bellevue
416:Napier, New Zealand
287:in Worcestershire.
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266:James Franck Bright
262:Newcastle upon Tyne
252:, who graduated at
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2160:Anna Kavan Society
2118:5 May 2012 at the
1691:Francis Henry King
1481:Book: A Miscellany
1280:A Scarcity of Love
1269:Gaberbocchus Press
1249:The House of Sleep
1025:Bright Green Field
969:experimental music
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