Hannah Margaret Mary Closs
Critic and novelist
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| Intro | Critic and novelist | |
| Places | England | |
| was | Novelist Critic | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 1905 | |
| Death | 1953Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, City of Bristol, South West England (aged 48 years) |
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Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (1905-1953) was an art critic and novelist. She wrote three novels and a book on aesthetics.
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Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (née Priebsch) was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of German scholar Robert Priebsch (1866–1935). She wrote a book on aesthetics, Her Art and Life (1936), and a re-working of the Tristan story (1940). Her three novels, republished as the Tarn Trilogy, treat Catharism.
She married August Closs, an Austrian-born professor of German Studies, in 1931. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, who was a professor of linguistics and English at Stanford University, from 1970 to 2003. She fell ill with toxaemia and died in Bristol General Hospital.