Tag: 1930s novels
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Emily Hilda Young (1880-1949) enjoyed an unconventional life. She married a solicitor, John Arthur Daniell, settling in Clifton, Bristol. But she also began a lifelong affair with Ralph Bushill Henderson, a married teacher, theologian and fellow mountaineer. Henderson had married Beatrice Mansfield in 1901. Although well into his 40s, Daniell served as a Sergeant Instructor…
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Cyril Connolly (1903-74) was primarily a literary critic, publishing this, his only novel, in 1936. It falls into the category of books about writing books, or researching them at least. Our anti-hero, Edgar Naylor, is partly an autobiographical study, and partly modelled on someone who later died in WW2 . He is employed as a…


