Liza Campbell
Sins of the Father
In My Father’s House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love
By Miranda Seymour
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Having written about Mary Shelley, Robert Graves, Henry James and Ottoline Morrell, Miranda Seymour has now turned her biographical skills onto her own family. Her childhood memoir, the biblically titled In My Father’s House, focuses on her father, George Fitzroy Seymour, and his obsession with their family home, Thrumpton.
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