Life of One's Own

by Joanna Field

Paperback, 1955

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Available

Call number

158.1

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Collection

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Publication

Pelican (1955), Mass Market Paperback, 217 pages

Description

How often do we ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One's Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book 'as exciting as a detective story' and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own personal diaries, kept over many years, she analyses moments of everyday life and discovers ways of being, of looking, of moving, that bring surprising

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This extraordinary book of self-analysis was first published in London in1936. The author, who had had a conventional training in psychology, resolved to discover what lay behind her own psychological inadequacies. Starting in 1926 she kept a diary of her thoughts and feelings which proved of great

help in her inner journey. Stephen Spender is quoted as having said that the book was "a socil document of value, because there are many men and women today in exactly the same predicament as that of Joanna Field.

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