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In The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell, Surprise Jameson has chosen a form which enables her to employ a rich source both of general population occurrences and personal knowledge and experience for the exercise of this imaginative observation which is characteristic of her best work. Whether she identifies a chance appointment in Paris with a fresh French poet, or the result of delegates at the international convention of writers on the very eve of warfare, or her connection with countless refugee intellectuals in London before and after Dunkirk; whether she is pulling one of her many astute comparisons between her own compatriots plus some other people - generally the French - or comforting the better half of your Austrian teacher just swept into internment, or bearing with the cynicism of some diplomat at the luncheon, she brings before us a panorama rather than world or an event. But the real real human interest of the audiobook is the thread of her own life running through it, exposing in little seductive flashes, sometimes a reminiscence of childhood, sometimes a delicately drawn portrait, like that of her father, the old sea captain, and throughout the story the visionary occurrence of the mom who on her behalf hasn't ceased to live on. Surprise Jameson (1891- 1986) born to a North Yorkshire family of shipbuilders. Jameson's fiery mom, who bore three young ladies, encouraged Surprise (christened Margaret Surprise) to follow an academic education. After being taught privately and at Scarborough municipal college she gained one of three county scholarships which enabled her to read English Books at Leeds University or college. She then went on to complete an MA in European Drama at King's University London. During her career Jameson composed forty-five books, numerous pamphlets, essays, and reviews, in order to earn money. Her personal life experienced, and her first matrimony to schoolmaster Charles Douglas Clarke was an miserable one. Once they divorced in 1925, Jameson went on to marry Guy Chapman, a fellow writer, and continued to be with him despite her obvious rejection of normal local life. Surprise Jameson was always politically dynamic, helping to post a Marxist journal in the United kingdom section of the International Union of Revolutionary Freelance writers in 1934 and joining anti-fascist rallies.
