Cakes and Ale (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: London and Kent, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, Literature, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, London, Widows or widowers, Biography
- Locales: London, England, Kent, England
Characters Discussed
Ashenden, a writer who is asked by Alroy Kear, another writer and a friend, to contribute his reminiscences of the younger days of still another writer, Edward Driffield, about whom Kear is planning to write a biography. Ashenden was a friend of Driffield and his first wife when they lived in the Kentish town where Ashenden lived, as a boy, with his uncle. Ashenden met the Driffields again in London when he was a medical student and became Driffield’s wife’s lover. Driffield’s wife, Rosie, ran off with another man, however, and Driffield divorced her....
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