The afterlife
(Book)

Includes index.

"Some of the subjects considered in The Afterlife: Jane Austen, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Orne Jewett, George Eliot, Mrs. Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, The Arts and Crafts Movement, The Poetry Bookshop, Edward Taylor, Charlotte Mew, Walter de la Mare, A.E. Housman, M.R. James, PUNCH, Ernest Shepard, William Butler, Yeats, Maud Gonne, George Moore, Ada Leverson, Olive Schreiner, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Radclyffe Hall.

E.M. Delafield, Dorothy L. Sayers, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Doora Carrington, Ford Madox Ford, Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, John Lehmann, Louis Macneice, C.S. Lewis, Stevie Smith, Angus Wilson, Roald Dahl, Philip Larkin, J.L. Carr, Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, John McGahern, Roddy Doyl, William Trevor, Amy Tan, Richard Yates, Carol Shields, Jung Chang, Victor Klemperer, Canaletto's Venice, The Holy Land, The Moors, My life and workd, My childhood home, Schooldays, Reading for the plot, Diaglogue in fiction, Why I write, How I write, Last Words"--Back cover.