tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post7873381681465445720..comments2024-03-28T12:10:31.018-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: All Night At Mr Stanyhurst's - Hugh Edwards, introduced by Ian FlemingDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-16788023287069087552022-05-24T13:20:01.946-04:002022-05-24T13:20:01.946-04:00Hi, Brad...it was not an attic bedroom, just a fro...Hi, Brad...it was not an attic bedroom, just a front bedroom of a coastguard's cottage that my Grandparents, Rear Adm. & Mrs. F Leonard, rented then owned from 1902. We loved it, the cottage, and sold it in 1989 approx. I was 10 when Hugh Edwards died, very sociable and much loved. Your grandmother was one of the nieces he read to, often on the beach below the cottage.There are some V Elwin Harrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-8876242197265605592019-01-15T03:56:03.965-05:002019-01-15T03:56:03.965-05:00Thank you, Brad, for sharing these interesting mem...Thank you, Brad, for sharing these interesting memories. MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-18877396720909612872019-01-14T16:56:51.093-05:002019-01-14T16:56:51.093-05:00It was an old fisherman’s cottage at East Prawle i...It was an old fisherman’s cottage at East Prawle in Devon where Edwards retired, I slept in that attic bedroom as a child in the 1980’s. Hugh Edwards brother Vernon was my great grandfather, I do have all of his books and all with inscriptions to Vernon. There are even pencil annotations and corrects that Vernon made to them. <br /><br />Thank you for an amazing review - it is quite powerful Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-12021921619311512302016-12-29T12:18:20.658-05:002016-12-29T12:18:20.658-05:00That sounds like a rather splendid browsing expedi...That sounds like a rather splendid browsing expedition, Michael, with such good finds. And curiously enough the two books I am reading just now are also by STW ('The Corner That Held Them') and Mary Butts (one of many rereadings of 'Armed With Madness'). MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-54550049422236222162016-12-29T01:22:28.485-05:002016-12-29T01:22:28.485-05:00An addendum to my earlier comment: I'm in San ...An addendum to my earlier comment: I'm in San Francisco, all of my family congregating here at a house my middle son shares with several roommates who are away for the holidays. This house is only a few blocks from Green Apple Books, which I visited on the day after Christmas. While looking through a "popular" fiction section, what should I see but a copy in a fine jacket of All Michael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-80496053209562254002016-12-10T22:08:15.931-05:002016-12-10T22:08:15.931-05:00Hi Sandy: That Arcturus film was a college projec...Hi Sandy: That Arcturus film was a college project of the late Bill Holloway. See my obit for him elsewhere on Wormwoodiana, with links to Arcturus on youtube:<br /><br />http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2014/07/in-memoriam-bill-holloway-1950-2014.html<br />Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-20938622071312361982016-12-10T19:59:26.636-05:002016-12-10T19:59:26.636-05:00There's an amateur film of Arcturus on dvd. I ...There's an amateur film of Arcturus on dvd. I have it but haven't watched yet.Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-87410127572078723222016-12-10T19:57:43.189-05:002016-12-10T19:57:43.189-05:00A bed and hundreds of books - sounds like my own a...A bed and hundreds of books - sounds like my own abode. Intrigued by the write up especially as I enjoy anything involving Rochester-type rakes, so have ordered a copy of the Fleming edition. Thank you Mark.Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-69003960633747435822016-12-09T03:21:58.010-05:002016-12-09T03:21:58.010-05:00Thank you for these comments. It sounds like we ha...Thank you for these comments. It sounds like we have the makings of a Hugh Edwards circle here, all on the quest for his books and ms. MarkMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-69748273036544639882016-12-08T18:36:16.825-05:002016-12-08T18:36:16.825-05:00Years ago, I bought a copy of "Stanyhurst&quo...Years ago, I bought a copy of "Stanyhurst"--I recognize the jacket--and now wonder what I did with it. Like so many other books, I never quite got round to reading it, but am glad to believe that it will eventually show up when I go through the boxes in my basement and storage unit. Excellent write-up, Mark, as always.--mdMichael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-63917861859706797562016-12-08T18:04:37.509-05:002016-12-08T18:04:37.509-05:00A cracking good review!A cracking good review!Bill Ectrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14957393680007486942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-84159413194680298302016-12-08T16:49:26.007-05:002016-12-08T16:49:26.007-05:00E.J. King-Bull was well-known as an adapter and pr...E.J. King-Bull was well-known as an adapter and producer on the Third Programme, adapting and producing A Voyage to Arcturus in 1956. Neither adaptation seems to be on the 'net unfortunately.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-73791388819632325622016-12-08T11:05:31.782-05:002016-12-08T11:05:31.782-05:00Martin Seymour-Smith gave Edwards an entry in his ...Martin Seymour-Smith gave Edwards an entry in his Who's Who in Twentieth-Century Literature on the strength of this novel. That prompted me to read it, and I was impressed. I have long wanted to read Edwards' other four novels, but with the exception of Crack of Doom, they are difficult to find.Patrick Murthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.com