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Archive for the 'A Week in Literary History' CategoryA Week in Literary HistoryDecember 17th, 2002 English novelist Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier, 1915) is born in Merton, Surrey, 1873. Ford Madox Ford, b. December 17, 1873, d. 1939
Suggested Reading Novels The Fifth Queen, 1906. An English Girl, 1907. Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, 1911. The Good Soldier, 1915. The Parade’s End novels Some Do Not, 1924. No More Parades, 1925. A Man Could Stand Up, 1926. The Last Post, 1928. Poetry Collected Poems, 1913. Collected Poems, 1936. Reminiscences Thus to Revisit, 1921. Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance, 1924. No Enemy, 1929. Return to Yesterday, 1931. It Was the Nightingale, 1933. Criticism, Studies, & Travel Ford Madox Brown, 1896. The Cinque Ports, 1900. Rossetti, 1902. Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1905. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1907. Henry James, 1913. Between St. Denis and St. George, 1915. A Mirror to France, 1926. The English Novel, 1926. Provence: from Minstrels to the Machine, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 16th, 2002 In 1900, English critic and short story writer V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett (Blind Love, 1969) is born in Ipswich, Suffolk. V.S. Pritchett, b. December 16, 1900, d. 1997
Suggested Reading Stories The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories, 1930. You Make Your Own Life, 1938. It May Never Happen, 1945. When My Girl Comes Home, 1961. Complete Short Stories, 1990. Memoirs A Cab at the Door, 1968. Midnight Oil, 1971. Literary Criticism Complete Collected Essays, 1991. Travel The Spanish Temper, 1954. London Perceived, 1962. New York Proclaimed, 1965. Dublin: A Portrait, 1967.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 16th, 2002 English playwright Noël Coward (Blithe Spirit, 1941) is born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. Noël Coward. b. December 16, 1899, d. 1973
Suggested Reading Plays The Vortex, 1924. Hay Fever, 1925. Fallen Angels, 1925. Easy Virtue, 1926. Private Lives, 1930. Design for Living, 1932. Present Laughter, 1939. Blithe Spirit, 1941. Waiting in the Wings, 1960. Memoirs/Diaries Middle East Diary, 1944. Future Indefinite, 1954. The Noël Coward Diaries, 1982.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 15th, 2002 In 1932, Irish short story writer and novelist Edna O’Brien (Girl with Green Eyes, 1965) is born in Twarngraney, County Clare. Edna O’Brien, b. December 15, 1930
Suggested Reading Novels The Country Girls Trilogy The Country Girls, 1960. The Lonely Girl, 1962. Girls in Their Married Bliss, 1963. A Pagan Place, 1970. The Dazzle, 1981. House of Splendid Isolation, 1994. Down by the River, 1996. Short stories The Love Object, 1968. A Scandalous Woman: And Other Stories, 1972. A Rose in My Heart: Love Stories, 1978. A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories, 1984. Lantern Slides, 1990. Saints and Sinners, 2011. Non-fiction Mother Ireland, 1976. James Joyce: A Biography, 1999. Byron in Love, 2009.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 11th, 2002 In 1922, American short story writer Grace Paley (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974) is born in New York City.
Grace Paley will perhaps not loom large in histories of late-twentieth-century American literature, because she wrote only in the short story genre, and wrote slowly. But what stories! Like Hemingway and Raymond Carver, she taught a generation how to make a piece of short fiction memorable, and her stories can be returned to time and again for the sheer delight they give in exuberant, witty, and wise writing. Suggested Reading Short stories The Little Disturbances of Man, 1959. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974. Later the Same Day, 1985. Essays Just As I Thought, 1998.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 8th, 2002 In 1894, American humorist James Thurber (The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935), is born in Columbus, Ohio. James Thurber, b. December 8, 1894, d. 1961
Suggested Reading Essays, Stories, Sketches, & Drawngs Is Sex Necessary?, 1929 (with E.B. White). The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931. The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, 1932. My Life and Hard Times, 1933. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935. My World—And Welcome to It!, 1942. Men, Women and Dogs, 1943. The Thurber Carnival, 1945. The Beast in Me and Other Animals, 1948. The Thurber Album, 1952. Thurber Country, 1953. Fables & Fantasies Fables for Our Time, 1940. The Thirteen Clocks, 1950. Further Fables for Our Time, 1956.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 8th, 2002 In 1868, English novelist Norman Douglas (South Wind, 1917), is born in Thüringen, Austria. Norman Douglas, b. December 8, 1868, d. 1952
Suggested Reading Novels South Wind, 1917. Travel Siren Land, 1911. Fountains in the Sand, 1912. Old Calabria, 1915. Alone, 1921. Together, 1923. Autobiography Looking Back, 1933. Late Harvest, 1946. More or less obscene poetry Some Limericks, 1928.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 7th, 2002 In 1888, Anglo-Irish novelist Joyce Cary (The Horse’s Mouth, 1944) is born in Londonderry.
The Anglo-Irish novelist was a wonderfully wise and elegant writer. His Gully Jimson-Sara Monday trilogy — Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, and The Horse’s Mouth — is a masterpiece, but all of his vivid novels reward rereading. Just work your way through in chronological order and discover one of the twentieth century’s best writers. Suggested Reading Novels Alissa Saved, 1932. The American Visitor, 1933. The African Witch, 1936. Castle Corner, 1938. Mister Johnson, 1939. Charley is My Darling, 1940. The House of Children, 1941. Herself Surprised, 1941. To Be a Pilgrim, 1942. The Horse’s Mouth, 1944. The Moonlight, 1946. A Fearful Joy, 1949. Prisoner of Grace, 1952. Except the Lord, 1953. Not Honour More, 1955.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 6th, 2002 In 1919, English travel writer Eric Newby (A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, 1958) is born in Hammersmith Bridge, London. Eric Newby, b. December 6, 1919, d. October 21, 2006
Suggested Reading Travel The Last Grain Race, 1956. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, 1958. Something Wholesale, 1962. Slowly Down the Ganges, 1966. Love and War in the Apennines, 1971. The Big Red Train Ride, 1978. A Traveller’s Life, 1982. On the Shores of the Mediterranean, 1984. A Book of Travellers’ Tales, 1985. Round Ireland in Low Gear, 1987.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 3rd, 2002 In 1857, novelist Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, 1900) is born Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Berdichev, Polish Ukraine.
Conrad, born in Poland, has often been praised for his mastery of his second language, but in fact he wrote in a strange un-Engish. After a couple of notable books he published his so-called masterpiece, Lord Jim, in 1900, then needed help on three subsequent novels from Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford), who later said, “Conrad spent a day finding the mot juste and then killed it.” We confess to a weakness for The Nigger of the Narcissus, but then we’re soft on sea stories, which is probably why we tolerate Lord Jim insofar as we do. Suggested Reading Novels The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897. Lord Jim, 1900. Nostromo, 1904. The Secret Agent, 1907. Short stories & tales Typhoon, 1902. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902. The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad, 1933.
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