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Hace 3 días · Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), who lived at Woodbine Cottage from 1937 to 1943, summed up the attraction of the Vale for writers: 'village life half an hour from Piccadilly Circus was a continuous refreshment and stimulus'.
11 de jun. de 2024 · Faith in 1914. Her younger brother Christopher Stone, later to become a pioneer in promoting recorded music on radio and the first BBC DJ, had become friends with another Oxford undergraduate, the dazzling and polymathic Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie.
9 de jun. de 2024 · Sir Edward Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) was a prolific author, producing a steady stream of novels, satire, biographies, memoirs, and many other works during a career that lasted for over 65 years.
Hace 2 días · Here is a noteworthy group of some of the most prominent men of letters of England and Ireland at the Garden party. Front row: Seated Senator Yeates, Compton Mackenzie, Augustus John, Sir Edwin Luytens. Standing Rear Row Left to right: Gilbert K. Chesterton, James Stephens and Lennox Robbinson. Bettmann
11 de jun. de 2024 · This idiosyncratic novel from 1957 by Faith Compton Mackenzie traces patterns across the Cornish landscape in the style of David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner. A mandolinata is played on mandolins: complex, melancholy and lyrical.
3 de jun. de 2024 · The penultimate book from Handheld Press neatly bookends the literary output of the totally forgotten Faith Compton Mackenzie (1878-1960). She was the author of three biographies, three memoirs, a collection of short stories, and two novels.
19 de jun. de 2024 · Faith was the first wife of celebrated author Compton Mackenzie, but her own achievements have been submerged under the weight of his fame and his colossal literary output. Rediscover a forgotten woman author who knew the most scandalous artists of the early twentieth century.
