Algernon Blackwood (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mike Ashley
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1869-1951
- Setting: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, United States, Switzerland, Hungary, Russia, Egypt, Austria, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Algernon Blackwood, Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, George Arthur Bigge, Alfred H. Louis, Maya Knoop
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, New York City, Literature, Guilt, England or English people, Canada or Canadians, Great Britain
- Locales: France, United States, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Russia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary
Although the many stories and novels that Algernon Blackwood produced in his later years are distinguished by their spiritual character, it was a spirituality far different from that he knew as a child. Blackwood’s father, Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, was a zealous albeit loving evangelist, and Blackwood grew up fearing that his parents’ grim beliefs were true. Dreamy and impractical, he failed repeatedly at school. An institution maintained by the Moravian Brotherhood in Germany’s Black Forest offered a more positive experience, although surely it is significant that when he used...
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