Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Lost Artists: Charles Mendelssohn Horsfall

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Neglected artists are much harder to rediscover even than neglected authors. A rather unusual case is that of Charles Mendelssohn Horsfall (...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

WORMWOOD 22 - M R James, Ballard, Gissing, A C Benson & more

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Wormwood 22 is now available and should be with subscribers by next week. We’re pleased to present 92 pages of original discussion on th...
Monday, April 28, 2014

A N L Munby on Ben Jonson's Books

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The discussion about ‘Shakespeare’s Dictionary’ prompts the question of whether many books known to have been owned by eminent literary figu...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Patrick Carleton, Thirties Novelist

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In a contribution to a mailing of the ghost story correspondence society The Everlasting Club (new members welcome), the eminent anthologis...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

The Laughing King Lear

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About thirty years ago or more, I spent a great deal of time “under the Dome” of the British Library, housed then in the British Museum in ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

The Shadow of Enoch Soames

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In 1916, Max Beerbohm published an account of his lunch in a Soho café on 3 June 1897 with the neglected decadent poet Enoch Soames, the aut...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Before Nabokov

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Charles Woodington was the author of three books: Hasheesh (Hodder & Stoughton, 1926); His Neighbour’s Wife (Stanley Paul, 1928); and ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Was this Shakespeare's Dictionary?

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Henry Wessells at The Endless Bookshelf is one of the first to review a beautiful and fascinating book that may also reveal one of the most...
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