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Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) was a woman of letters instrumental, with her husband J. B. Priestley, in launching the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 and engaged in elaborating a philosophy of human consciousness in a specifically English vein. A Land (1951) presents a symbolic biography of Britain, evoking the holistic vision of a cultural landscape shaped by an extended interaction between human beings and nature, carrying its past as a mythic presence. A Quest of Love (1980) is both a visionary autobiography and a cultural archaeology of the complementary relationship between men and women. Firmly grounded in the English countryside, this overlooked exercise in écriture feminine is framed by a matter-of-fact voice that confidently claims possibilities hitherto unavailable to “a middle-class English woman” like Hawkes herself.
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Habermann, I. (2018). English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley. In: Orgis, R., Heim, M. (eds) Fashioning England and the English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92126-6_11
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