Pixie
Autor Ms Jill Dawsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 mar 2026
It's the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.
After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman's talent, grit and determination.
In Pixie, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526671066
ISBN-10: 1526671069
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526671069
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Pixie is a captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you've never heard of
In Pixie, Jill Dawson has deftly conjured back into life a woman who is shrouded in mystery and the occult. For too long Pamela Coleman Smith has remained an anecdote to England's rich history of magic, when indeed, via her life and drawings for the Ryder-Waite-Smith tarot deck, she played a central role . . . I not only rejoiced in this book, but welcome it as an important work of feminist reclamation . . . Pixie is a story that needed to be told. She is in good hands, here, and a work of magic has been done. It's thrilling to live with this book
About how difference and quirkiness should be celebrated. And how we should trust our instincts. And it's about how hard it is to be a woman artist
A rich and marvellous story, a delight
Jill Dawson is a truly bold and vigorous and immersive writer, a deep-diver into character and context alike. Pixie (Pamela) Colman Smith is a deliciously, irresistibly quicksilver creation, at once bumptious and insecure, brilliantly certain of her talent and determined to navigate a world that seems to offer no place for her. Dawson evokes a vividly fascinating milieu for her, conjuring up all the extraordinary characters - the shamans and poets, idealists and eccentrics and pushers at boundaries - who came into their own at the beginning of the twentieth century, the end of one era and the dawn of a new and uncertain one
A funny, feminist bildungsroman, suffused with 1900s atmosphere and Sapphic steaminess that will see her scoop up any Sarah Waters fans who haven't already discovered her. I loved it
A work of genius . . . A profoundly feminist book
Pixie is a living, bouncing, thinking entity on the page . . . A fabulous writer and a wonderful book
Irresistible - a sparkling read . . . Pixie's voice skitters and skates across the page
Prepare to fall head over heels in love with fin-de-siècle influencer Pixie in Jill Dawson's passionate exploration of female creativity against the odds. Forget A Room of One's Own. Pixie is a cry for A Life of One's Own
A wonderful evocation of the life and times of a bewitching artist. Jill Dawson has a gift for turning up the unexpected card in any deck and Pixie is one of her best
Jill Dawson's marvellous character Pixie - teeny tiny and towering at the same time - paints and draws a world that reflects and refracts the extraordinary times in which she lived. A wonder
Brilliant, entertaining, wild and inspiring . . . Highly diverting and very addictive . . . Ambition, fame, art, the occult - what more could you ask for? Pixie finally brings Pamela Colman Smith out from beyond the esoteric veil of magic and mystery into full colour . . . Jill Dawson's writing is really storming
In Pixie, Jill Dawson has deftly conjured back into life a woman who is shrouded in mystery and the occult. For too long Pamela Coleman Smith has remained an anecdote to England's rich history of magic, when indeed, via her life and drawings for the Ryder-Waite-Smith tarot deck, she played a central role . . . I not only rejoiced in this book, but welcome it as an important work of feminist reclamation . . . Pixie is a story that needed to be told. She is in good hands, here, and a work of magic has been done. It's thrilling to live with this book
About how difference and quirkiness should be celebrated. And how we should trust our instincts. And it's about how hard it is to be a woman artist
A rich and marvellous story, a delight
Jill Dawson is a truly bold and vigorous and immersive writer, a deep-diver into character and context alike. Pixie (Pamela) Colman Smith is a deliciously, irresistibly quicksilver creation, at once bumptious and insecure, brilliantly certain of her talent and determined to navigate a world that seems to offer no place for her. Dawson evokes a vividly fascinating milieu for her, conjuring up all the extraordinary characters - the shamans and poets, idealists and eccentrics and pushers at boundaries - who came into their own at the beginning of the twentieth century, the end of one era and the dawn of a new and uncertain one
A funny, feminist bildungsroman, suffused with 1900s atmosphere and Sapphic steaminess that will see her scoop up any Sarah Waters fans who haven't already discovered her. I loved it
A work of genius . . . A profoundly feminist book
Pixie is a living, bouncing, thinking entity on the page . . . A fabulous writer and a wonderful book
Irresistible - a sparkling read . . . Pixie's voice skitters and skates across the page
Prepare to fall head over heels in love with fin-de-siècle influencer Pixie in Jill Dawson's passionate exploration of female creativity against the odds. Forget A Room of One's Own. Pixie is a cry for A Life of One's Own
A wonderful evocation of the life and times of a bewitching artist. Jill Dawson has a gift for turning up the unexpected card in any deck and Pixie is one of her best
Jill Dawson's marvellous character Pixie - teeny tiny and towering at the same time - paints and draws a world that reflects and refracts the extraordinary times in which she lived. A wonder
Brilliant, entertaining, wild and inspiring . . . Highly diverting and very addictive . . . Ambition, fame, art, the occult - what more could you ask for? Pixie finally brings Pamela Colman Smith out from beyond the esoteric veil of magic and mystery into full colour . . . Jill Dawson's writing is really storming