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Miranda Seymour
Miranda Seymour is a British biographer whose acclaimed books include biographies of Jean Rhys; Lord Byron’s wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace; Mary Shelley; and Ottoline Morrell. She lives in Nottinghamshire, England.
Awards
Longlisted — Plutarch Award, 2023
Books by Miranda Seymour
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour
E Book, 2022
“Enthralling.… Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse’s shamefaced offspring, complicity.” —James Wood, The New Yorker
An...I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour
Hardback, 2022
An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour
Paperback, 2024
“Enthralling.… Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse’s shamefaced offspring, complicity.” —James Wood, The New Yorker
An...After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jean Rhys, Miranda Seymour
Paperback, 2020
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” —V. S. Naipaul, New York Review of Books