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View ArticleThe War and the Novelists: a talk in Sheffield
I shall be giving a talk in Sheffield on January 30th, on The War and the Novelists, looking at how writers of fiction responded to the Great War, both during theactual war years, and in the 1920s....
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The Kipling Boom, 1890
Researching (i.e. idly Googling) Kipling, I came across this rather good bit of verse printed in the San Francisco Examiner of 1890. It’s a reaction to the sudden and seemingly unstoppable vogue for...
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Rose Allatini and D.H. Lawrence?
When I wrote my monograph on Rose Allatini, I tried hard to find information about what Rose did between the publication and the prosecution of Despised and Rejected. Now I’ve found an intriguing...
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Did T.S. Eliot read Edna Ferber’s ‘Showboat’?
Edna Ferber’s novel Show Boat (1926) has a memorable description of the detritus after a storm on the Mississippi: Outside, the redundant rain added its unwelcome measure to the swollen and angry...
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A Kipling anecdote
From the Tewkesbury Register, and Agricultural Gazette, 14 Sep 1918 A true story, or a bit of folklore?
View ArticleHere’s a challenge…
I’m puzzled. Vintage Uk have apparently prefaced their edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse with this warning: ‘This book was published in 1927 and reflects the attitudes of its time. The...
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Byron
Even more off-topic than usual, but I thought I’d share here the fact that I’ve co-authored an article that is printed in the new edition of the Byron Journal. Here’s how it happened: My friend Mary...
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Humanities
After I retired as a teacher, I applied to Oxford Brookes to research a Ph.D. on the prose of the Great War. They were welcoming, and I had a good and productive time there. (I was very fortunate in...
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A Miserable Kipling
Here, from the Lyttelton Times, a New Zealand newspaper of 1911, is yet another proof of the strange side-effects of Rudyard Kipling’s immense celebrity:
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