A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott

A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott
Louisa Young

Louisa Young, the best-selling author of MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is also the granddaughter of the celebrated sculptor, Kathleen Scott. In A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott she tells us about an extraordinary woman and a celebrated artist.Kathleen Scott led a remarkable life despite an unremarkable start as a Victorian girl in a normal, middle class family; but she went on to grab life by the reigns and lead an extraordinary life. Her gift as a celebrated sculptor, her role as wife to Captain Scott of the Antarctic and her circle of artistic influencers was quite something.And here, in this biography, is captured the energy of a life lived to the brim, and a masterly account of a woman who up until now was only known as an explorer’s widow.Discover the story of Kathleen Scott.

Louisa Young

A Great Task of

Happiness

THE LIFE OF KATHLEEN SCOTT

Dedication (#u4fc8c5b4-ad8b-5fe3-b986-fa330d2f9ebe)

For her descendants

Wayland and Peter; Easter, Emily, Mopsa, Thoby and Zoe;

Nicola, Falcon and Dafila; Alice and Remel, Louis and Theo; Arthur; Joe, Lily

and Tom; Maud, Archie and Tolly; Emily, Dan, Lucy-Kate and Ben;

Freddie and Helena; Lucy; Peter and Amber;

and my Isabel.

And unto the next generation...

Epigraph (#u4fc8c5b4-ad8b-5fe3-b986-fa330d2f9ebe)

‘If I have faltered more or less

In my great task of happiness...’

From The Celestial Surgeon by Robert Louis Stevenson

Contents

Cover (#uf9b09a4e-37d4-558d-9362-60695d6ded08)

Title Page (#u9e601bc2-9c6b-5b71-95e3-fd3c5be9bfe6)

Dedication (#uc9759bca-11d9-5be7-a5a8-fdd579a714d2)

Epigraph (#u9afc4844-513c-5406-8a36-ece7258105f5)

Introduction (#ulink_6dbf66d3-265d-507a-b7bd-228b6309df40)

OneMotherless Daughter, Victorian Child (#ulink_451964ef-3f63-59bb-8ee8-b0a0cf063fa6)

TwoThe Road to Hell (#ulink_ac8c7299-d51d-5579-9ad8-3c86693c176a)

ThreeA Badly Dressed Virginal Anglaise in Paris (#ulink_290b4992-79e3-5cd1-a348-0636d023c17e)

FourBabies Are Being Born (#ulink_7a0a8768-5c52-5d82-9adf-12b208fd79be)

FiveIsadora’s Baby (#ulink_cdcd311f-0b47-597e-ada7-067cc52b0b95)

SixVagabonding in Greece (#litres_trial_promo)

SevenFrighteningly in Love with Captain Scott (#litres_trial_promo)

EightDarling I Will be Good When We’re Married (#litres_trial_promo)

NineMarried Life (#litres_trial_promo)

TenGoing South (#litres_trial_promo)

ElevenAt Opposite Ends of the Earth (#litres_trial_promo)

TwelveDaddy Won’t Come Back (#litres_trial_promo)

ThirteenLiving in Ignorance (#litres_trial_promo)

Fourteen‘Got My Wireless’ (#litres_trial_promo)

FifteenThe First War (#litres_trial_promo)

SixteenSculpting and Dancing (#litres_trial_promo)

SeventeenSecond Husband, Second Son (#litres_trial_promo)

EighteenThe Thirties (#litres_trial_promo)

NineteenThe Second War and the End (#litres_trial_promo)

Postscript (#litres_trial_promo)

Images (#litres_trial_promo)

Biographical Details (#litres_trial_promo)

Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

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