Pixie
Dawson, Jill2026
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It's the turn of the 20th 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 parents, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her work seen and to make a name for herself. 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. 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 vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.
Main title:
Pixie / Jill Dawson.
Author:
Dawson, Jill, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2026.
Collation:
400 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781526671066 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9071259