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Britain in Pictures
Series · 41
books · 1932-2001

Books in series

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English Poets

1942

Part of the Writers' Britain series, first published in the 1940s, this work argues that poetry, of all the arts, is the chosen artistic expression of the nation. It surveys the English poets and their legacy, from Chaucer to the War Poets.
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#2

English Music

1941

English Music {Britain in Pictures}
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The Government of Britain

1941

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. The structure and workings of the British government were the focus of five books in the series: The Government of Britain (1941), The House of Commons (1947), The Liberal Party (1948), The Conservative Party (1948), and The Labour Party (1948). In this early entry in the series, British historian George Malcolm Young overviews the workings of the government broadly speaking, including Parliament, political parties, and government departments.
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India

1941

Part of the Britain in Pictures series (and the British Commonwealth subseries) published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume, Sir Firozkhan Noon (better known as Feroz Khan—legislator, diplomat, and later to serve briefly as Pakistan's Prime Minister in the late 1950s) outlines the history of India with a focus on the India of the 1930s.
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English Villages

1945

In this book, the author writes of the nature of the English village in general, and takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around the world of the village, the school, the farm, and village trades and games.
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English Country Houses

1941

"There is nothing quite like the English country house anywhere else in the world." So pronounces Vita Sackville-West in the beautiful essay that opens English Country Houses, a brief history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. People may know of Sackville West's novels, or her passion for gardening, or her relationship with Virginia Woolf, but few know of her efforts to boost the morale of her beloved England during World War II. Sackville-West spent her childhood years at Knole House, a stately country home that deeply influenced her life and work. In entertaining and accessible prose she brings a deep affection to the task of boosting the morale of a country beset by war. This volume in the Britain in Pictures series is a love letter to the elegant homes of the English countryside and served as a balm to a besieged country. Writing at the height of the Blitz, as cities lay in smoldering ruins after relentless bombing, Sackville-West demonstrates a yearning for the safety provided by these exceptional buildings. We discover the architecture of the stately houses, with details conveyed in such entertaining and vivid prose that the buildings and surrounding areas come to life. The story is not just about the buildings, however, but also about the people who built and lived in them, from the most common of squires to the highest-born kings and queens. Equal parts architectural history and cultural history, this insider's view is quintessentially British. Its elegant package, with a ribbon for bookmarking, makes it the perfect gift for any Anglophile.
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English Education

1941

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume of the series, Kenneth Lindsay surveys the whole field of education and its history in England, from nursery schools to the universities, technical colleges, and polytechnics catering for adult students.
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South Africa

1941

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time.
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The Story of Scotland

1942

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. This book provides a brief account of Scotland's geography and history and the qualities of her people. It addresses contemporary issues, including the poor quality of housing in the industrial west, the challenges of crofting, and loss of population through emigration.
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#22

British Mountaineers

2001

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English Novelists

1942

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume of the series, Elizabeth Bowen, herself a distinguished novelist, provides a survey of the principal English novelists and their works from John Lyly to Virginia Woolf.
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British Cartoonists, Caricaturists and Comic Artists

1942

British Cartoonists, Caricaturists and Comic Artists (Britain in Pictures)
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New Zealand

1942

Part of the Britain in Pictures series (and the British Commonwealth subseries) published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time.
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The English Church

The Bishop of Chichester

1942

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume of the series, Dr. Bell, presents the story of the history, the organization and administration, the spiritual ideals, and the practical work of the English Church.
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English Women

1932

In this collection of mini-biographies and character sketches, Edith Sitwell muses on the nature of English women and provides sketches ranging from actresses to travellers and authors, including Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Queen Elizabeth I, Virginia Woolf, and Christina Rossetti.
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Life Among the English

1996

This book concerns the social life of the English from the ancient Britons through to the 20th century, finding a similarity of behavior across the centuries, from eating and drinking to dress and sport.
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British Ports and Harbours

1942

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British Trade Unions

1942

British Trade Unions {Britain in Pictures}
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British Craftsmanship

1948

With 48 Plates in Colour and 152 Illustrations in Black & White. \[A Collected Edition of Six Volumes by Various Authors, Previously Published in the Same Series.\]
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English Cities and Small Towns

1997

In this work, John Betjeman discovers the old Tudor brick behind the modern shop front and explores the alleyways as well as the main street in this study of English cities and small towns.
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#48

Britain in Pictures

A history and bibliography

1995

This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue of the series, with details of the various editions and short biographies of the authors. The catalogue is preceded by a shot essay which describes how Hilda Matheson's vision was realised after her early death by the poet and journalist W.J. Turner, assisted by Sheila Shannon, the publisher William Collins, and a group of talented emigres from Austria who worked for the producer, Adprint, having fled their lives from Hitler. Much of the history is based on research into wartime papers only recently opened for public examination, and personal interviews with people still living who worked on BIP, including Sheila Shannon and some of the thirteen surviving authors. Much new light is thrown on the authoritative, beautiful and popular BIP books which helped Britain win the war, and on the fascinating people who helped produce them. l
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English Diaries and Journals

1943

_With 8 Plates in Colour And 19 Illustrations in Black & White_ Miss Kate O'Brien - brilliant Irish novelist and critic - is renowned for her wit, sensibility and fine discriminating style. These qualities make her particularly suited to write on English Diaries and Journals. Her approach to the subject is provocative - "the best English Diaries have been written by bores"; it challenges established reputations and singles out for praise others who have remained comparatively obscure. Pepys and Evelyn are shrewdly appraised; also the individual qualities of Wesley's Journal, the Woodforde family Journals and the diaries of the fascinating Fanny Burney and of that remarkable man Francis Kilvert; among contemporary journals, those of Scott, Barbellion and Katherine Mansfield figure prominently. Miss O'Brien is highly critical of her subject but her sympathies are lively and she is always ready to be amused and to amuse her reader. This is a book to be read for the quality of its writing and criticism as well as for the able and informative analysis of individual writers.
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The English Bible

1977

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time.In this volume of the series, distinguished scholar and leading authority on seventeenth century British literature, Grierson presents the story of the Bible in English.
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British Photographers

1944

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British Maps and Map-Makers

1944

Probably few people realize the many-sided interest and charm of early English maps and coastal charts, yet they are inextricably bound up with our history and culture. The Plantagenet wars, the distribution of monastic estates to laymen, our maritime expansion under Elizabeth, the buccaneers’ raids in the Pacific under Charles II, the enclosure of common lands, the ’45, the building of post-chaise roads, canals and Palladian ‘seats’ for the gentry, and the growth of the British Empire under George III are all recorded in our maps and charts. At the same time, scientific research by Elizabethan seamen, by the Royal Society founded by Charles II, and by the Ordnance Survey, together with the invention of new instruments – from the astrolabe to the cross-staff, from the plane-table to the theodolite – were gradually perfecting methods of surveying. The ornament, symbols, lettering and colours upon maps reflect the fashion of their times, changing from the illuminated maps drawn on the parchment by mediaeval monks to the extravagant pseudo-classical cartouches and delicate copper engraving and writing of the sixteenth century on to the massive baroque of Dutch Williams’ time and the graceful rococo and “empire’ styles of George III’s reign.
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Boy Scouts

1944

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume, Mr Reynolds, the Editor of The Scouter and the biographer of Lord Baden-Powell, gives a straightforward account of the origins and growth of the movement and describes its chief activities, achievements, and aims.
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Islands Round Britain

1945

PRE ISBN 8 plates in colour 27 b/w illustrations. R.M. Lockley, author and farmer, has written mostly of islands and birds and among his best known books are Island Days, I Know an Island and Shearwaters. In this book Mr Lockley has written of the islands lying off the coast of the British Isles. Many of these he knows from first-hand experience: he knows them as a serious ornithologist who has studied the seabirds and the spring and autumn migrations from many of the island Bird Stations, he has looked at them with the practical eye of a working farmer and he has sailed among them for pleasure. Islands, for most of us, have a fascination which never fades and the wonderful variety in the character and history, the legends and, above all, the beauty of our islands is most admirably described in this book. As Mr Lockley himself writes, “There is something about a small island that satisfies the heart of man.”
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English Watercolour Painters

1945

48 printed pages of text with 8 colour plates and 21 monochrome illustrations.
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British furniture makers

1945

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English Public Schools

1945

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume of the series, Rex Warner outlines the history of the English Public School system from the 14th century foundations through the first half of the 20th century.
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English Hymns and Hymn Writers

1947

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. In this volume, the author traces the development of the English hymn and hymn books with a brief account of the men and women who contributed to Britain's national institution of Hymn Singing.
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English Glass

1987

English Glass
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The English People

1947

The author of "Nineteen-eighty Four", "Animal Farm", and "Homage to Catalonia," here interprets in succinct style the social history of the British isles and its people. ILLUS.
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Life Among the Scots

1946

To many English people, Scotland is still the land of kilts, of Highland Games and red deer. But this is the Scotland of the Victorian summer tourist. The real Scotland is a nation of five million people- a nation as great and as individual in character as Norway or Denmark. Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time.
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British Ships and Shipbuilders

1946

From the Britain in Picture series is illustrated with 8 plates in color and 29 black/white. The story of the development Britain ships and shipbuilders and the men who designed and made them. From the primitive vessels or Elizabethan times up to the performance of the British shipping industry in World War II
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English essayists

1956

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time.
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British Clocks And Clockmakers

1947

For over three hundred years British clock and watch craftsmen have devoted themselves to the pursuit of precision timekeeping. The great turning point in the history of the craft in Britain was Charles I's grant of a charter to the new Company of Clockmakers in the summer of 1631. This book tells the story of the rise, decline and revolution of British horology and the Author tells of seventeenth and eighteenth century time-pieces which today still chime and tell the time for us just as they did in the hands of the Tudors and Stuarts. Mr. Ullyett, F.R.Met.S., is a noted collector of antique clocks and watches, and he writes on the subject with the skill of the technical historian as well as with the enthusiasm of the life-long connoisseur and collector.\[Description from the flapcopy.\]
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British Hills and Mountains

1947

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The House of Commons

1947

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. The structure and workings of the British government were the focus of five books in the series: The Government of Britain (1941), The House of Commons (1947), The Liberal Party (1948), The Conservative Party (1948), and The Labour Party (1948). In this late, post-war entry in the series, Martin Lindsay Martin MP overviews the workings of the House of Commons.
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English Fashion

1948

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The Conservative Party

1949

Part of the Britain in Pictures series published between 1941 and 1948 in an effort to boost morale and instill pride in a national identity during the war and early post-war years. Over 130 volumes were planned but only 126 actually appeared. The list of authors was an impressive who's who of the literary, political and arts communities of the time. The structure and workings of the British government were the focus of five books in the series: The Government of Britain (1941), The House of Commons (1947), The Liberal Party (1948), The Conservative Party (1948), and The Labour Party (1948).

Authors

George Blake
George Blake
Author · 1 books

George Blake was a Scottish writer notable for his books about Clydeside shipbuilders. He worked as a journalist and in a publishing house before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include Vagabond Papers (1922), The Shipbuilders (1935), David and Joanna (1936) and the semi-autobiographical work Down to the Sea (1937). In 1924 Blake moved to London, where he was appointed acting Editor of the magazine John o’ London’s Weekly, moving four years later to the Strand magazine which he was unable to restore to its former fortunes. In 1930 became a director of the publisher Faber and Faber. He was involved in running the Porpoise Press, Edinburgh (which published Neil M. Gunn’s Morning Tide in 1931) as a subsidiary of Faber. The Porpoise Press was established to stimulate and publish Scottish writing, interest in which was high at the time.

R.M. Lockley
Author · 7 books

Ronald Mathias Lockley, known in his published works as R. M. Lockley, was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history. Read more about him from this BBC profile: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entr...

Ngaio Marsh
Ngaio Marsh
Author · 50 books

Dame Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900, but she was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Of all the "Great Ladies" of the English mystery's golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. Over a fifty-year span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic English detective novels, which gained international acclaim. She did not always see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter. Marsh's first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work. Throughout the 1930s Marsh painted occasionally, wrote plays for local repertory societies in New Zealand, and published detective novels. In 1937 Marsh went to England for a period. Before going back to her home country, she spent six months travelling about Europe. All her novels feature British CID detective Roderick Alleyn. Several novels feature Marsh's other loves, the theatre and painting. A number are set around theatrical productions (Enter a Murderer, Vintage Murder, Overture to Death, Opening Night, Death at the Dolphin, and Light Thickens), and two others are about actors off stage (Final Curtain and False Scent). Her short story "'I Can Find My Way Out" is also set around a theatrical production and is the earlier "Jupiter case" referred to in Opening Night. Alleyn marries a painter, Agatha Troy, whom he meets during an investigation (Artists in Crime), and who features in several later novels. Series: * Roderick Alleyn

Frank Fraser Darling
Frank Fraser Darling
Author · 5 books

Sir Frank Fraser Darling FRSE LLD (born Frank Darling) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. While working as a Clean Milk Advisor in Buckinghamshire, and longing for a research post in Scotland, Fraser Darling heard about the work of the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University, and in the early 1930s the Director, Francis Albert Eley Crew, offered him a place there to study for a PhD. From 1929–1930 he was Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Breeding and Genetics, part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, at Edinburgh. In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Living at Dundonnell and later in the Summer Isles, Fraser Darling began the work that was to mark him as a naturalist-philosopher of original turn of mind and great intellectual drive. He described the social and breeding behaviour of the red deer, gulls, and the grey seal respectively, in the three academic works A Herd of Red Deer, Bird Flocks and the Breeding Cycle and A Naturalist on Rona. In 1944, the wartime Secretary of State for Scotland, Thomas Johnston, appointed Fraser Darling as Director of the West Highland Survey, tasked with gathering facts to inform future land use and management in the Highlands and Islands. His report, West Highland Survey: An Essay in Human Ecology, was finally published in 1955.

Herbert John Clifford Grierson
Herbert John Clifford Grierson
Author · 1 books

Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson often referred to as Herbert J.C. Grierson, was a Scottish literary scholar editor and literary critic. He was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen and Christ Church, Oxford. On graduating from the latter he was appointed Professor of English Literature at his Aberdeen alma mater, where he taught from 1894 to 1915, and subsequently became Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (1915 – 1935). He is credited with promoting interest in the metaphysical poets, especially John Donne, a revival more commonly attributed to T.S. Eliot. His special field of research was English poetry of the 17th century, but he was also interested in Walter Scott.

Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell
Author · 13 books
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE, was a British poet and critic.
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Author · 1 books

South African novelist, born in Lithuania, educated in Kimberley. Her obsession as a novelist was with the supposed dire consequences of miscegenation. As J. M. Coetzee has shown in White Writing (1988), though she was Jewish her assumptions about race were derived from Victorian anthropologists and Social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer. Yet this discredited outlook, so widespread at the time, did not prevent her from writing some good novels with genuine tragic pathos, such as God's Stepchildren (1924), with its haunted, ‘mixed-blood’ protagonist, Barry. Despite her racialism Millin was vehemently anti-Nazi and attacked Nazi ideology in The Herr Witchdoctor (1941). As well as many novels, including Adam's Rest (1922), The Sons of Mrs. Aab (1931), and King of the Bastards (1950), she wrote autobiographical memoirs, war diaries, short stories, and two distinguished biographies, Rhodes (1933) and General Smuts (1936). In such non-fiction as The South Africans (1926, revised edition 1934), she addressed the potential for racial conflict. Read more: Sarah Gertrude Millin Biography - (1889–1968), White Writing, God's Stepchildren, The Herr Witchdoctor, Adam's Rest http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages...

Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West
Author · 37 books

Novels of British writer Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, include The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931). This prolific English author, poet, and memoirist in the early 20th century lived not so privately. While married to the diplomat Harold Nicolson, she conducted a series of scandalous amorous liaisons with many women, including the brilliant Virginia Woolf. They had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had same-sex relationships. Her exuberant aristocratic life was one of inordinate privilege and way ahead of her time. She frequently traveled to Europe in the company of one or the other of her lovers and often dressed as a man to be able to gain access to places where only the couples could go. Gardening, like writing, was a passion Vita cherished with the certainty of a vocation: she wrote books on the topic and constructed the gardens of the castle of Sissinghurst, one of England's most beautiful gardens at her home. She published her first book Poems of East and West in 1917. She followed this with a novel, Heritage, in 1919. A second novel, The Heir (1922), dealt with her feelings about her family. Her next book, Knole and the Sackvilles (1922), covered her family history. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. In the latter, the elderly Lady Slane courageously embraces a long suppressed sense of freedom and whimsy after a lifetime of convention. In 1948 she was appointed a Companion of Honour for her services to literature. She continued to develop her garden at Sissinghurst Castle and for many years wrote a weekly gardening column for The Observer. In 1955 she was awarded the gold Veitch medal of the Royal Horticultural Society. In her last decade she published a further biography, Daughter of France (1959) and a final novel, No Signposts in the Sea (1961). She died of cancer on June 2, 1962.

E.E. Reynolds
Author · 2 books
Edwin Ernest Reynolds
W.J. Turner
W.J. Turner
Author · 1 books
Walter James Redfern Turner was an Australian-born, English-domiciled writer and critic.
G.M. Young
Author · 1 books
George Malcolm Young (1892-1959) was a historian best known for his essay Portrait of an Age.
Leo Walmsley
Leo Walmsley
Author · 3 books

Leo Walmsley was an English writer. He was born in Shipley in West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel & the Scarborough Municipal School. He was the son of the painter Ulric Walmsley. In 1912 the young Leo secured the post of curator-caretaker of the Robin Hood's Bay Marine Laboratory at five shillings a week. During World War I he served as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa, was mentioned in dispatches four times and was awarded the Military Cross. After a plane crash he was sent home, and eventually pursued a literary career. He settled at Pont Pill near Polruan in Cornwall, where he became friendly with the writer Daphne du Maurier. Many of his books are mainly autobiographical, the best known being his Bramblewick series set in Robin Hood's Bay – Foreigners, Three Fevers, Phantom Lobster and Sally Lunn, the second of which was filmed as Turn of the Tide (1935).

Frank Smythe
Author · 4 books

Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s.[2] It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude".[3] Smythe was educated in Switzerland after an initial period at Berkhamsted School, trained as an electrical engineer and worked for brief periods with the Royal Air Force and Kodak before devoting himself to writing and public lecturing. Smythe enjoyed mountaineering, photography, collecting plants, and gardening; he toured as a lecturer; and he wrote a total of twenty seven books.[4] Smythe's focused approach is well documented, not only through his own writings, but by his contemporaries and later works. Among his many public lectures, Smythe gave at least several to the Royal Geographical Society, his first being in 1931 titled "Explorations in Garhwal around Kamet", his second in 1947 titled "An Expedition to the Lloyd George Mountains, North-East British Columbia". Smythe was a prodigious writer and produced many popular books. However his book "The Kangchenjunga Adventure" launched Smythe as a legitimate and respected author.[5] During the Second World War he served in the Canadian Rockies as a mountaineer training officer for the Lovat Scouts. He went on to write two books about climbing in the Rockies, Rocky Mountains (1948) and Climbs in the Canadian Rockies (1951). Mount Smythe (10,650 ft) was named in his honour. In 1949, in Delhi, he was taken ill with food poisoning; then a succession of malaria attacks took their toll. He died on 27 June 1949, two weeks before his 49th birthday. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank\_S...]

Michael Carney
Author · 1 books
*Note there are multiple authors who publish under the name of Michael Carney.
Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
Author · 18 books

Emilie Rose Macaulay, whom Elizabeth Bowen called "one of the few writers of whom it may be said, she adorns our century," was born at Rugby, where her father was an assistant master. Descended on both sides from a long line of clerical ancestors, she felt Anglicanism was in her blood. Much of her childhood was spent in Varazze, near Genoa, and memories of Italy fill the early novels. The family returned to England in 1894 and settled in Oxford. She read history at Somerville, and on coming down lived with her family first in Wales, then near Cambridge, where her father had been appointed a lecturer in English. There she began a writing career which was to span fifty years with the publication of her first novel, Abbots Verney, in 1906. When her sixth novel, The Lee Shore (1912), won a literary prize, a gift from her uncle allowed her to rent a tiny flat in London, and she plunged happily into London literary life. From BookRags: http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ros...

Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Author · 24 books
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
Rex Warner
Author · 12 books
Rex Warner was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941), an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home village and the pure, efficient, emotionally detached life of an airman.
Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton
Author · 16 books
Born in London in 1904, Cecil Beaton's first photographs were of his sisters styled in theatrical decadent costumes. His unique flair for elegance and fantasy lead him to become one of the most successful and influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th century. Baron Adolf de Meyer and Edward Steichen were sources of inspiration for him, but he developed a style all his own. He worked for Vogue for over twenty-five years and also became official court photographer to the Royal family in 1937. A constant innovator, Beaton worked for five decades photographing some of the most captivating figures of his time, from Edith Sitwell to the Rolling Stones, Greta Garbo, Jean Cocteau, and Marilyn Monroe. Beaton died in 1980 at the age of 76.
Adam Fox
Adam Fox
Author · 2 books

Adam Fox (1883 – 1977), Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the first members of the "Inklings", a literary group which also included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Between 1938 and 1942 he was Professor of Poetry. Later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey and he is buried there in Poet's Corner. He was also Warden (Headmaster) of the famous Radley College. During his time at Oxford, he wrote his long poem in four books "Old King Coel". It gets its name from King Cole, legendary British father of the Roman Empress Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine. As Professor of Poetry, Fox advocated poetry which is intelligible to readers, and gives enough pleasure to be read again. This was important to him because poetry which is not re-read will not be understood properly, and will therefore be irrelevant. This advocacy can be understood as a criticism against some forms of modern poetry. Although not considered one of the most important "Inklings", Fox's works are still of interest, particularly those concerning Christianity and Platonism. In his 1945 Plato for Pleasure, he tried to introduce the general public to Plato. Fox wished to make Plato well known among the English Classics once again and hoped that people would study the platonic dialogues, as well as the plays of Shakespeare. His biography of William Ralph Inge, the famous theologian, philosopher and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, is still regarded as an important text and was awarded the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize soon after its publication.

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