Jane Satterfield
Jane Satterfieldwas presented with the 2007 Gold Medal
for Best Essay for her manuscript
The Crooked Track, which has been expanded to a full
length memoir recently published as:
Daughters of Empire:
A Memoir of a Year in Britain
and Beyond.
Jane Satterfield, a Faulkner Society gold medalist for essay, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and the author of Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2000). Born in England and educated in the U.S., she holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received three Maryland State Arts Council grants in poetry, and her nonfiction awards include the Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, The Heekin Foundation’s Cuchulain Fellowship, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, poet Ned Balbo, and her daughter Catherine, and teaches at Loyola University in Baltimore. Daughters of Empire weighs the powerful individual drama of pregnancy and motherhood against a larger backdrop of culture shock and marital tension. A dual British-American national on her first return trip to England in over a decade, Jane Satterfield faced a woman’s fundamental decision: to become a mother or to forge a new life on her own. That the decision was not so simple was only the first of many revelations. Satterfield casts a loving yet skeptical glance on the world of mid-‘90s Britain as well as the cultural and literary legacy that continues to haunt, shape, and challenge her. In a voice by turns tender, insightful, and funny, Satterfield brings to life a provocative personal history through fascinating detours into music, popular culture, and literary mothers such as the Brontës, Sylvia Plath, and Angela Carter.
About Daughters of Empire: A
Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond
“Daughters of
Empire reaches us on many levels—as the memoir of an emerging
artist, a young mother, a woman trying to locate her nationality and her place
in the world…This intelligent, candid book is filled with movement, wit,
tenderness, and vitality. Satterfield writes in a variety of forms and voices
to produce a story that is powerful and close to the bone.”
—Valerie Miner, author of The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
“The mark of a real writer is in every sentence, and Jane Satterfield’s memoir,
which speculates on paths and tracks, both physical and spiritual, discovers its
own individual path with complex, erudite, and poetic sentences that give
pleasure all along the way. Surprising, enlightening, and full of depth, this
is a nuanced story of return, birth and rebirth, and the multiple echoes of
‘home.’”
—Rodger Kamenetz, author of The History of Last Night’s Dream
“Daughters of Empire is a brave and wise admixture: a yearning and a knowing; a
lyric and a guide; a meditation on exile by one who writes so poignantly, so
brilliantly that embrace is the reader’s first urge.”
—Beth Kephart, author of Ghosts in the Garden
“With a finger constantly on the pulse of the artistic and culture trends of
Britain in the mid-1990s, award-winning writer Satterfield explores her own
attempts at reconciling motherhood with her literary legacy.”
--Library Journal, May 2009
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Daughters of Empire:
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http://www.yorku.ca/arm/daughtersofempire.html
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