Romancing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeremy Treglown
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1905-1973
- Setting: Primarily Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Henry Vincent Yorke (Henry Green), Maud Wyndham Yorke, Gerald Yorke, Mary Adelaide Biddulph Yorke, Sebastian Yorke, Anthony Powell, Terry Southern
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Novelists, Great Britain, 1900’s
- Locales: Great Britain
Just before the outbreak of World War II, Henry Green published an “interim” autobiography, Pack My Bag: A Self Portrait, in which he describes himself in the opening paragraph:
I was born a mouthbreather with a silver spoon in 1905, three years after one war and nine before another, too late for both. But not too late for the war which seems to be coming upon us now and that is the reason to put down what comes to mind before one is killed, and surely it would be asking much to pretend one had a chance to live.
Green felt keenly that in fact he would not...
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