Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He...
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Frank Quennell (born 1956), politician Joan Quennell (1923–2006), politician Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), author/illustrator Peter Quennell (1905–1993)...
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cultivating friendships with younger students Anthony Powell, Henry Yorke and Peter Quennell. In spring he was back in Spain, before returning to Oxford to take...
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has been independently owned since 1981. The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell, a "dashing English man of letters", and Alan Hodge, former journalist...
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socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell. Ian died in 1964; their son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from...
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of England, From Hanover to Windsor. London: Peter Owen Publishers. ISBN 0-7206-1271-3. Quennell, Peter (1939). Caroline of England. London: Collins....
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unclear that Arab was his son. Some claimed that they were relatives. Peter Quennell-History today, Volume 9, p.154 Slovenská akadémia vied. Kabinet orientalistiky...
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Under Fire with James Pope-Hennessy (Batsford, 1941) Time Exposure with Peter Quennell (Batsford, 1941) Air of Glory (HMSO, 1941) Winged Squadrons (Hutchinson...
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is "so incapable of helping himself that he is not worth helping". Peter Quennell in the New Statesman found the story both painful and amusing—"tragedy...
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London: T.C. & E.C. Jack. Peter Quennell, Hogarth's Progress (London, New York, Ayer Co., 1955, ISBN 978-0836981452) Peter Quennell. "Hogarth's Election Series...
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Frank Quennell (born 1956 in Regina, Saskatchewan) was a New Democratic Party MLA for the provincial constituency of Saskatoon Meewasin, covering part...
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herself Imogen for the time of her mission. Who's Who in Shakespeare By Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson, p. 107 Dobson, Michael; Wells, Stanley; Sharpe, Will;...
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(1903–1976, France, f/p/nf) C. H. B. Quennell (1872–1935, England, nf) Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972, England, ch) Peter Quennell (1905–1993, England, nf/p) Antero...
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and scholars with Gershwin's composition. In 1941, social historian Peter Quennell opined that Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby embodied "the sadness...
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retrospective reviews that followed after his death, literary critics such as Peter Quennell dismissed his magnum opus The Great Gatsby as merely a nostalgic period...
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tempestuous sometime wife of Cyril Connolly. Mark Members Promising poet Peter Quennell, all-purpose literary personage, poet, and cultural historian. The name...
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- Harold Monro - Robert Nichols - J. D. C. Pellow - Frank Prewett - Peter Quennell - Vita Sackville-West - Edward Shanks - J. C. Squire 1912 in poetry...
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wife of CHB Quennell. Peter Quennell (1905–1993), biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic, son of CHB Quennell. John Wells...
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undergraduate at Balliol College with Anthony Powell, Matthew Ponsonby, Peter Quennell and Pierse Synnott. He was in particular friend of Ponsonby. In his...
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elegy for his sister Edith. An Indian Summer (1982), with a preface by Peter Quennell, collecting together 100 of his best most recent poems, was his final...
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School friends included the journalist Claud Cockburn and the historian Peter Quennell. Greene contributed several stories to the school magazine, one of which...
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Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935), was an English architect, designer, illustrator and historian. According to the heritage architect Cath Layton...
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that there was beauty in the poem similar to that in The Hollow Men. Peter Quennell agreed and described the poem as "a new and remarkably accomplished...
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Italy, and later Joan accompanied Peter Quennell and Erskine to Sicily where she took photographs for an article Quennell was writing. After Erskine's death...
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live in Paris in relative comfort. She had affairs with, among others, Peter Quennell, Feliks Topolski, Charles Addams, Bernard Frank, John Sutro and Alan...
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taken from that of a house owned by the parents of his wife's friend, Peter Quennell. Fleming dedicates a quarter of the novel to the Shrublands setting...
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manuscript form cover 750 closely-written folio pages. Described by Peter Quennell as "One of the most remarkable books of its kind ever published in the...
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Council, 1964–1967, and chairman of the Decimal Currency Board Sir Peter Quennell (1905–1993), writer and editor Sir Colin Buchanan (1907–2001), town...
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critics and scholars with Gershwin's composition. In 1941, historian Peter Quennell opined that Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby embodied "the sadness...
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Road – A Review". The Observer. Retrieved 22 August 2016. edited by Peter Quennell about the Mani on the Mani olive harvest. Wikiquote has quotations related...
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