Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
1 – I’m Busy
	A Really Great One
	Tove’s Busy
	Cennini
	Self-Portraits
	Biography
2 – Family
	Signe Hammarsten
	Viktor Jansson
	Mother’s Dynamic Brothers
	Hammarsten and Jansson
3 – The Embryo Artist
	The Tove Publishing Co!!!
	The Storyteller
	I’m a Writer
	A Free Young Lady
	The Painter at the Ateneum
4 – The Travelling Painter
	The Janssons’ Paris
	Tales of a Painter
	Longing for Italy
	The Illustrator
	Drawing, Politics, and Trolls
5 – A Men’s War
	Tove and Eva
	A Men’s War
	Scenarios of War
	The Family
	I Just Paint
	Self-Portraits and One-Woman Shows
	The Studio in the Tower
	Colonies for Artists and Forests of Dreams
	Peace
6 – Moomin Tales and Monumental Paintings
	Moomintroll’s Strange Journey
	A Moominological Story
	The Creation Story
	The Original Manuscript
	The World of Peace
7 – The Time of the Apocalypse
	The Comet and the Prophet
	Tarzan and Atos
	Comet in Moominland as a Children’s Book
	Publication
8 – Moomin Passion
	Moomin Summer
	The Golden Butterfly
	The Magic of Love
	The Publisher’s Smile
	Thingumy al Fresco
	Windrose House
9 – Trolls and Humans
	Between One Sentence and the Next
	Moomin on the Wall and on the Stage
	The Queen of Surprises
	Imagination
	A New Age
10 – The Wild 1950s
	A Theatre of Pictures
	Longing for Mother
	Private Changes
	Midsummer Night’s Dream
	The Nature of Theatre
	Jansson the Moominist
	Dear Mr Sutton
	The Moomins Grow
	Moomin Business
	Painter and Author
11 – The Troll Who Stepped Out in the Cold
	Too-ticky
	Moominland Midwinter
	The Painter
	The Enchanter
	Transformation
	The Great Journeys
12 – A Need for Expression
	The First Letter from Åke
	Give Me a Picture
	Spring-Cleaning the Painter
	The Loving Toffle
	The Letter
	A Best-loved Book
	Who Will Comfort Astrid?
	The Invisible
	A Writer of Children’s Books for Adults
13 – The Woman Who Fell in Love with an Island
	To the Island
	The Melancholy of Guilt
	To the Island Again
	Father’s Book
	To the Lighthouse
	Mamma al Secco
14 – The Stone and the Story
	Medals and Revisions
	Stories of Childhood
	Sacred Sculpture
	Moomin’s Daughter
15 – Dreaming of a Valley
	Towards Paris
	A Summer of Writing
	‘Moominvalley Revisited’
	Nummulites
	Sorrow
	A New Family
16 – Journeys with Tove
	Freedom
	The Listener
	The Listener Herself
	The Summer Book
	Change
	Sun Cities
	Drama in Paris
	The Most Dangerous Journey
17 – A Time for Words
	Writing Oneself
	New Pictures
	Work and Love
	The Black Novel
	Messages
	Letters
	The Last Story
Acknowledgments: Godparents
Chronology
Tove Jansson’s Published Works
Photo Credits
Index of Works
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About the Authors
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