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The Lost Mother

A Story of Art and Love

Author: Anne Summers  

A poignant, interweaving narrative about the author's relationship with her mother, Eileen Hogan, told through her search for a lost painting of the latter as a child. Her search for the painting is simultaneously an intriguing literary mystery and a touching attempt to bring closure and understanding to her turbulent relationship with her mother.

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A poignant, interweaving narrative about the author's relationship with her mother, Eileen Hogan, told through her search for a lost painting of the latter as a child. Her search for the painting is simultaneously an intriguing literary mystery and a touching attempt to bring closure and understanding to her turbulent relationship with her mother.

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The Lost Mother is a poignant, interweaving narrative about author Anne Summers' relationship with her mother, Eileen Hogan, told through her search for a lost painting of her mother as a child. In 1933, the artist Constance Parkin saw Summers' mother, a ten-year-old schoolgirl, at Mass one Sunday morning in Brighton. Evidently attracted by something about the young girl's features, Parkin asked if she might paint her portrait. Over the next few months, Parkin painted two portraits of Eileen: Alice, in which the schoolgirl holds a large Alice in Wonderland book; and A Saint, a religious painting in which the young girl is draped in fabric so as to appear like the Madonna. Alice was eventually purchased by Summers' grandmother from the Catholic Archdiocese in 1970. The whereabouts of A Saint remain unknown. Summers' search for the painting is simultaneously an intriguing literary mystery and a touching attempt to bring closure and understanding to her turbulent relationship with her mother.

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About the Author

Anne Summers is a bestselling author and columnist and a former editor-in-chief of landmark American feminist magazine, Ms. She was a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating and ran the Office of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986. Her books include Damned Whores and God's Police, Ducks on the Pond, On Luck, and The End of Equality.

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Product Details

Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Published
1st July 2009
Edition
1st
Pages
288
ISBN
9780522856354

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