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Anna Kavan

10 April 1901 - 5 December 1968

Anna Kavan 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 nom de plume but as her legal identity. - Wikipedia

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  • Cover of: A charmed circle

    First published in 1929 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Let me alone: A novel

    First published in 1930 4 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A stranger still

    First published in 1935 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition strangerstilltex00kava
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  • Cover of: Asylum Piece and Other Stories

    First published in 1940 8 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Change the name

    First published in 1941 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Sleep has his house

    First published in 1947 10 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Julia and the Bazooka: The first American collection of stories by Anna Kavan

    First published in 1970 8 editions in 4 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Asylum Piece, and Other Stories

    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: My soul in China: novella and stories

    First published in 1975 5 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The parson

    First published in 1995 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Let me alone: A scarcity of love

    First published in 1995 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Lód

    First published in 2007 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Autobiographical fiction, Psychological fiction, surrealism fiction, English Psychological fiction, English Short stories, Mentally ill women, Psychiatric hospital patients, autobiographical, bildungsroman, female emancipation, American Novelists, Anticolonialism, Bildungsroman, Biography, Drug addiction, Drug addicts, English Autobiographical fiction, English Novelists, English fiction, English literature, Families, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, general
Places
London, Far East, room, Bandol, Bellevue hotel, Bellevue sanatorium, Blue Hills, California, China, England, Ethelbert Place, Gardone Lake, Hannington, New York, Nice, Old Vicarage, Oxford, Perpignan, Port Said, Pyrenees, Rangoon, River House, Riviera, South of France, Starling Hill
People
Anna Kavan, Catherine Howard, Lauretta Bland, Matthew Kavan, Oblomov, doctor, patient, Anthony Quested, Beryl Deane, Carla, Cedric Lewison, Celia, Claydon, David Fairborther, Doctor Deane, Edward Wilbur, George West, Gerald Gill, Germaine Lewison, Gwenda Lewison, Heyward Bland, Hubert Byrne, Irving, James Forrester, John
Time
20th century, 1940, 1920, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, 1945-1970

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  • Helen Emily Woods
  • Helen Ferguson
  • Anna KAVAN

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September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
July 5, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Author bio
June 11, 2014 Edited by Catherine Lenoble Added new photo
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import