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Dorothy Carrington was the daughter of Major General Sir Frederick Carrington, a hero for his crushing of the Matabele Rebellion and a friend of Cecil Rhodes. Her mother was Susan Elwes.
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The Dream-Hunters of Corsica
(The dream-hunters,or mazzeri,are unknown outside Corsica ...)
The dream-hunters,or mazzeri,are unknown outside Corsica and probably date from pre-historic times.At night they go hunting-or dream they do so-and kill an animal,in whom they recognise a human face.The next day they announcethe death,which always takes place within a year. Where the mazzeri are harbingers of death,the signadori are guardians of life-they practise folk medicine,but more importantly,they practise folk medicine,but more importantly,they secure release from the curse of the Evil Eye. With characteristic elegance and clarity,Dorothy Carrington investigates these extraordinary phenomena,relics of past times peculiar to this wild,inhospitable land.THE DREAM HUNTERS OF CORSICA is a fascinating insight into a forgotten corner of civilisation where the occult has retained its everyday place as an explanation of the mysteries of life.
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Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica (Penguin Classics) by Carrington, Dorothy (2008)
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Corsica: portrait of a granite island
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CORSICA: PORTRAIT OF A GRANITE ISLAND is a work of classic status for which Dorothy Carrington received the Royal Society of Literature award. Whether analyzing the archaic beliefs of rural Corsica, witchcraft, prophecy, the veneration of the dead, examining the details of Genoese of Pisan architecture, or discussing its innumerable invaders, Carrington reveals her deep love and understanding of this strange land. Scholarly research, acutely lived personal experiences, and the author's sensitive and intelligent observation make the book continuously delightful and fascinating. She evokes the magnificent scenery and austere granite villages. She illustrates the traditional pastoral economy with accounts of her visits to shepherds' settlements little changed since proto-historic times. A study of banditry and the vendetta system is completed with a description of personal encounters with people and families still involved. This pattern of authentic insular culture is vividly traced throughout its long history. Around 1500 B.C., the Corsicans were the precursors of European humanistic sculpture; the beautiful and mysterious "statue-menhirs" are still found on the island. In the later Middle Ages, they organized communities that might be described as village welfare states. And more than 30 years before the Constitutional Convention of the U.S., they practiced a form of national representative democratic government, led by the dynamic Pasquale Paoli. The product of years spent in Corsica, this is a study in depth of one of the least known, and most beautiful, areas in Western Europe.
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Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica
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'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.
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Dorothy Carrington
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She was one of the twentieth century"s leading scholars on the island"s culture and history about which she wrote numerous books and articles Subsequently, she read English at Street Margaret"s Hall, Oxford from which she fled. Franz went out to Rhodesia, Africa, where she joined him for a short time but the wilderness did not suit her, so she returned to Europe in 1937.
However Franz preferred Rhodesia and stayed and built an estate called Wilton.
They divorced in 1937. A second marriage, to Darcy Sproul-Bolton, ended with his death in the late 1930s.
She then immersed herself in the London art world, and in 1942 organised an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, "Imaginative Art since the War". One of the exhibitors was the surrealist painter Sir Francis Rose, whom she shortly after married.
In July 1948, Carrington and Rose made the first of four trips to She had intended to write a book and move on.
But in 1954 she settled on the island in Ajaccio, without Rose. They divorced in 1966. In 1971 she wrote her masterpiece, "Granite Island".
Later offerings included "The Dream Hunters of " which examined the dark, threatening side of the n psyche.
Partly as a result of her work, French archaeologists were persuaded to travel to and study the now famous megalithic site of Filitosa. Dorothy Carrington was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 1986 she was made a Chevalier de l"Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The University of gave her an honorary doctorate in 1991 and the Queen awarded her an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Corsica: portrait of a granite island
(CORSICA: PORTRAIT OF A GRANITE ISLAND is a work of classi...)
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The Dream-Hunters of Corsica
(The dream-hunters,or mazzeri,are unknown outside Corsica ...)
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Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica
('Get away from here before you're completely bewitched an...)
- Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica (Penguin Classics) by Carrington, Dorothy (2008)
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Corsica: portrait of a granite island
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