South Lodge: Reminiscences Of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford And The English Review Circle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of novelist Violet Hunt and her tempestuous companion Ford Madox Ford — and Douglas Goldring's memoir draws back the curtain on one of the most creatively charged circles of the early twentieth century. South Lodge chronicles Goldring's intimate firsthand experiences as a young editor at *The English Review*, painting vivid portraits of the writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered under that famous roof, from Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells to Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. Goldring writes with the candour and wit of someone who witnessed literary history in the making, blending sharp personal anecdote with broader cultural observation to illuminate the tensions, rivalries, and brilliance that defined the English modernist avant-garde. His memoir stands as an invaluable document of a pivotal moment when British literature was reinventing itself, and his affectionate yet unflinching portraits of Hunt and Ford — two of its most magnetic and contradictory figures — leave the reader hungry to know more about the world that shaped them.
Author: Douglas Goldring
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, Constable & Co Ltd
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of novelist Violet Hunt and her tempestuous companion Ford Madox Ford — and Douglas Goldring's memoir draws back the curtain on one of the most creatively charged circles of the early twentieth century. South Lodge chronicles Goldring's intimate firsthand experiences as a young editor at *The English Review*, painting vivid portraits of the writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered under that famous roof, from Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells to Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. Goldring writes with the candour and wit of someone who witnessed literary history in the making, blending sharp personal anecdote with broader cultural observation to illuminate the tensions, rivalries, and brilliance that defined the English modernist avant-garde. His memoir stands as an invaluable document of a pivotal moment when British literature was reinventing itself, and his affectionate yet unflinching portraits of Hunt and Ford — two of its most magnetic and contradictory figures — leave the reader hungry to know more about the world that shaped them.