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Frank Swinnerton

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist.

He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. His long life and career in publishing made him one of the last links with the generation of writers that included H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett.

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Frank Swinnerton

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Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. He was the author of more than 50...

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List of works by Arnold Bennett

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1930 Selections from the complete journals, edited and selected by Frank Swinnerton, 1954 (revised edition, with additions, 1971) Florentine Journal, 1910...

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Compton Mackenzie

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Beerbohm praised Mackenzie's writing for vividness and emotional reality. Frank Swinnerton, a literary critic, comments on Mackenzie's "detail and wealth of reference"...

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Arnold Bennett

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ISBN 978-0-99-288793-3. Swinnerton, Frank (1950). Arnold Bennett. London and New York: Longman. OCLC 1148037250. Swinnerton, Frank (1954). "Introduction"...

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Swinnerton

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racing cyclist Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, English politician, historian and antiquary Frank Arthur Swinnerton, English novelist, critic, biographer...

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Henry Tilney

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courage, as he shows with his marriage to Catherine at the book's close. Frank Swinnerton considered that, as a teasing mentor, knowledgeable on female matters...

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Sinister Street

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has miraculously done is to make you feel what each term was like. Frank Swinnerton, a literary critic, described it thus: It is the picture of the development...

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Kingdom of Redonda

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J. B. Priestley, Eden Phillpotts, Stephen Potter, Martin Secker, Frank Swinnerton, John Wain, and Julian Symons. This practice has continued with later...

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List of people who have declined a British honour

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Siwatibau, Fijian academic.[when?] David Storey, playwright and novelist. Frank Swinnerton, novelist and critic (in 1969). William Jenkyn Thomas (in 1935). Sue...

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The Young Visiters

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before it reached Frank Swinnerton, a novelist who was also a reader for the publishers Chatto and Windus. Largely due to Swinnerton's enthusiasm for this...

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1982 in the United Kingdom

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November Frank Baker, novelist (born 1908) Sir Thomas Elmhirst, air marshal and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (born 1895) Frank Swinnerton, novelist...

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1884 in literature

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short story writer and political essayist (died 1935) August 12 – Frank Swinnerton, English novelist (died 1982) August 24 – Earl Derr Biggers, American...

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Riceyman Steps

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and Other Stories (1924). Foreword to the 1953 Penguin edition by Frank Swinnerton Riceyman Steps, 1983 reprint (Twentieth Century Classics), Oxford Paperbacks...

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Cranleigh

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his actress wife Barbara Bach lived on the outskirts of the village. Frank Swinnerton the writer lived in the large cottage Old Tokefield on The Commons...

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Andrew Chatto

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from 1892 to 1911, and he also handled The Gentleman's Magazine. Frank Arthur Swinnerton, who worked at the firm, recalls Chatto as: a gentle elderly man...

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The Code of the Woosters

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incongruity with Bertie's naive honesty. At the time of its publication, Frank Swinnerton welcomed the novel's “happy invention and still happier expression”...

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Hugh Walpole

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on his family and others. Walpole described it to his fellow author Frank Swinnerton as "a simple shocker which it has amused me like anything to write...

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Thomas Burke bibliography

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Contains fiction by André Maurois, J. L. Hudson, Burke, James Laver, Frank Swinnerton, John Brophy, Marjorie Bowen etc. Verses. (1910) The Small People:...

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Great James Street

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Dorothy L. Sayers lived at No. 24 from 1921 to 1929. Author and critic Frank Swinnerton lived at No. 4. Humorist, poet, and playwright E. V. Lucas lived at...

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