Areas of thematic focus in of Rosamond Lehmann's The Swan in the Evening include death and the power of writing $($S$$llei$,2009).$ Further, S$$llei $(2009)$ points out the ability for "the trauma of death" to act $"$as a source of writing" $($p$.175).$

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S$$llei$,$ N$.,(2009)$ The mother in mourning as the subject of autobiography in Rosamond Lehmann's The swan in the evening: Fragments of an inner life. In A$.$ O'Reilly, & S$.$ Caporale$-$Bizzini $($Eds$.).$ From the personal to the political: Toward a new

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