Elaine Feinstein

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Elaine Feinstein (born 24 October 1930, Bootle, Lancashire) is a poet, novelist, playwright, biographer, short-story writer and translator.

Elaine Feinstein was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist.

She has contributed to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was formerly Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsø, Norway.

Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.

She is the author of a number of plays for television and radio and several biographies, including singer Bessie Smith, writer D. H. Lawrence, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Biographies

Listed by year originally published (with other editions noted):

  • 1986: Bessie Smith: Lives of Modern Women Series Penguin/Viking
  • 1987:A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva Hutchinson
  • 1993: Lawrence's Women HarperCollins, London, 1993;
    • as Lawrence and The Women, New York, 1993
  • 1998: Pushkin Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Ecco, U.S.
  • 2001: Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001
  • 2005: Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005; Knopf, 2006

[edit] Poetry

  • 1966: In a Green Eye, London, Goliard Press
  • 1971: The Magic Apple Tree, London, Hutchinson
  • 1972: At the Edge, Sceptre Press
  • 1973: The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson
  • 1977: Some Unease and Angels, Hutchinson; reprinted, 1981
  • 1977: Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press
  • 1980: The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/ Next Editions
  • 1987: Badlands, Hutchinson
  • 1990: City Music, Hutchinson
  • 1994: Selected Poems, Carcanet
  • 1997: Daylight, Carcanet
  • 1999: After Pushkin, (edited by Elaine Feinstein) Folio Society & Carcanet
  • 2000: Gold Carcanet
  • 2002: Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet
  • 2007: Talking to the Dead, Carcanet

[edit] Translated poetry

Listed by year first published (except for Marina Tsvetayeva volume)

[edit] Novels

Listed by year first published (years of later editions also noted):

  • 1970: The Circle London, Hutchinson (Penguin 1973)
  • 1972: The Amberstone Exit, London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1974); translated into Hebrew (Keter 1984)
  • 1973: The Glass Alembic, as The Crystal Garden London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1978); New York, Dutton, 1974
  • 1975: Children of the Rose, London, Hutchinson; (Penguin 1976); translated into Hebrew, 1987
  • 1976: The Ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, London, Hutchinson
  • 1978: The Shadow Master, London, Hutchinson, 1978; New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979
  • 1982: The Survivors, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
  • 1984: The Border, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1985
  • 1988: Mother's Girl, London, Hutchinson; shortlisted for 1990 Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
  • 1989: All You Need, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
  • 1992: Loving Brecht, London, Hutchinson
  • 1994: Dreamers, London, Macmillan
  • 1996: Lady Chatterley's Confession, London, Macmillan
  • 2001: Dark Inheritance, London, Women's Press

2008 "The Russian Jerusalem". London , Carcanet.

[edit] Radio plays

  • 1980: "Echoes"
  • 1981: "A Late Spring"
  • 1983: "A Day Off"
  • 1985: "Marina Tsvetayeva: A Life"
  • 1987: "If I Ever Get On My Feet Again"
  • 1990: "The Man in Her Life"
  • 1993: "Foreign Girls, a trilogy"
  • 1994: "A Winter Meeting"
  • "Lawrence's Women in Love" (four-part adaptation)
  • 1996: Adaptation of novel, Lady Chatterley's Confession Book at Bedtime

[edit] Short stories

  • 1972: Matters of Chance, London, Covent Garden Press
  • 1980: The Silent Areas, London, Hutchinson

[edit] Prizes and awards

[edit] References

  • Peter Lawson Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein, 2005, Vallentine Mitchell & Co ISBN 0-85303-617-9

[edit] External links

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