Scholars, Poets and Radicals by Rita Ricketts
The Blackwell Collections the archive of the well-loved bookselling and publishing company are full of surprises. There are warrior women no longer prepared to suffer the fate of a spellbound princess, scholarly apprentices giving themselves an Oxford education, and reluctant radicals publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to certain death in the Great War. Amid the many unknown authors the Blackwells published are famous names: J. R. R Tolkien, John Buchan, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell, and Laurence Binyon, who is recollected whenever For the Fallen is read. But the memoirs, letters, and journals of ordinary people who worked for the family also deserve a hearing. The diary of Will King, a real-life Jude the Obscure, stands out. Its astonishing record of what he read and his mordant dissection of the texts amounts to a critique of English culture between 1910 and 1950. Together with the stories of three generations of B. H. Blackwells and their diverse associates, the book provides a panel of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history far beyond Oxford.
Rita Ricketts is the author of Adventurers All (2002).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781851244256 |
| ISBN 10 | 1851244255 |
| Title | Scholars, Poets and Radicals |
| Author | Rita Ricketts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bodleian Library |
| Year published | 2015-03-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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