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050 00 $aPR9199.4.W36$bO74 2003
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100 1 $aWarner, Janet A.$q(Janet Adele),$d1931-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85200701
245 10 $aOther sorrows, other joys :$bthe marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake /$cJanet Warner.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2003.
300 $avii, 371 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"So Catherine Sophia Boucher Blake looks back on her marriage to William Blake, the notoriously strange poet and artist. Other Sorrows, Other Joys is the imagined life of Kate Blake, as she was known, who lived in eighteenth-century England. If you read between the lines of Blake's poetry and letters, this is the story you might find." "Other Sorrows, Other Joys weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of Kate's search for identity in the shadow of a man who can "see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower." Conventional, innocent Kate struggles to understand the world around her in the midst of her visionary husband's free-thinking crusades for freedom in religion, in politics, in love. Janet Warner's rich novel dramatically re-creates the story of a poet, his spiritual companion, and the mystic visions that haunt them both throughout their lives." "As Kate works as Blake's assistant, printing and coloring his designs, she witnesses the psychic powers that distract William from earning a living. She endures the loss of a long-awaited child, Blake's fascination for gifted women, and his frightening trial for treason. Through Kate's eyes, we meet a parade of people prominent in eighteenth-century artistic circles during the time of the French Revolution - the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, the publisher Joseph Johnson, and Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense - people whose intertwined lives were as unconventional as any Bohemians of a later time. Amid these turbulent personal and political events, Warner reveals the ecstasy and pain of Kate and William's marriage, which survived such tumultuous times. As Kate so wisely realizes, "A marriage is made up of many more people than the two who are actually in it!""--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBlake, Catherine Boucher$vFiction.
600 10 $aBlake, William,$d1757-1827$vFiction.
650 0 $aAuthors' spouses$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009116354
650 0 $aMarried people$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107177
651 0 $aEngland$vFiction.
650 0 $aArtists$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100472
650 0 $aPoets$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109303
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
852 00 $bglx$hPR9199.4.W36$iO74 2003