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    Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary...
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  • English actress Nell Hudson. Connolly grew up in Sussex, England. She is the only daughter of the critic and writer Cyril Connolly (died 26 November 1974)...
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    posthumously, based on his time there. At St Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a writer and who, as the editor of Horizon, published several...
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  • Others who are cited as Oxford Wits are John Betjeman, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, Brian Howard, Alan Pryce-Jones, John Sparrow, John Sutro, and Christopher...
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  • Bensons for Beds Cyril Bourlon de Rouvre (born 1945), French businessman and politician Sir Cyril Burt (1883–1971), psychologist Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)...
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  • journalist Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), English man of letters Dan Connolly, multiple people David Connolly (born 1977), Irish footballer Fintan Connolly, Irish...
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  • Deal, Mr. Bond" by Phillip and Robert King, and "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly which are discussed below. In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at...
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  • strategists, and seldom mentioned the war afterwards. He later told Cyril Connolly, "Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was far worse: inconceivably...
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    marshmallows in a cola sauce (especially made to annoy English critic Cyril Connolly who told her Americans didn't know how to cook). She also provided photographs...
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  • Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941. He researched the book with Cyril Connolly in 1969 and it was later adapted into a film by Michael Radford in the...
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  • and benefactor. He funded the literary magazine, Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. Watson was the son of William George Watson, later Sir George Watson...
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  • still writes fiction, and receives a letter from Cyril Connolly at the hospital where she works. Cyril is rejecting Briony's submitted draft of her latest...
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  • Enemies of Promise (category Works by Cyril Connolly)
    of Promise is a critical and autobiographical work by English writer Cyril Connolly published in 1938, later enlarged when it was first reprinted in 1948...
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  • She wed prominent critic Cyril Connolly in 1950, a marriage which ended in 1956. At the time of her engagement to Connolly in 1950, King Farouk took...
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  • Enemies of Promise, an autobiographical work by Cyril Connolly, and at Connolly's request. Connolly, who had been Orwell's companion at St Cyprian's...
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  • not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell. Ian died in 1964; their son Caspar died in London...
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    (1928–1999) – military historian, Conservative politician and diarist Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) – literary critic and writer John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford...
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  • was commended to Cyril Connolly when he arrived there as a boy with character. After an initial amount of bullying by Meynell of Connolly[citation needed]...
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    book was translated into English by Cyril Connolly and published in 1944 under the title Put Out the Light. Connolly's translation was reprinted in a bilingual...
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    This post was Cyril Connolly's first job in 1925 and he was to be strongly influenced by Smith. Robert Gathorne-Hardy succeeded Connolly in this post....
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  • The Unquiet Grave (book) (category Works by Cyril Connolly)
    The Unquiet Grave is a literary work by Cyril Connolly written in 1944 under the pseudonym Palinurus. It comprises a collection of aphorisms, quotes, nostalgic...
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    generation, Cyril Connolly, praised Maugham for his lucidity and called him "the last of the great professional writers", but Connolly's contemporary...
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    book in 1947, the famous "Battle Royal" scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of Horizon magazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison's early...
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    secretarial position at Horizon, an influential literary magazine edited by Cyril Connolly and founded by Peter Watson, one of her friends. She contributed with...
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    under the pen-name "The Affable Hawk". During this time he recruited Cyril Connolly to the paper. By 1928 he was losing interest in the New Statesman, and...
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    Hollywood with his wife Maria, son Matthew Huxley, and friend Gerald Heard. Cyril Connolly wrote, of the two intellectuals (Huxley and Heard) in the late 1930s...
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    by fellow Soviet operative Kim Philby in Washington. The journalist Cyril Connolly vividly described what he had seen of Maclean in London c. 1951: "He...
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    Brinkley or as Captain Francis Brinkley and was the great uncle of Cyril Connolly. In 1841, Frank Brinkley was born at Parsonstown House, County Meath...
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    Publicity Company and promotes Gordon to a position as a copywriter Cyril Connolly wrote two reviews at the time of the novel's publication. In the Daily...
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    Hudson was born on 19 November 1990 to journalist and author Cressida Connolly and Charles Hudson, the middle of three children, and grew up on the Wyke...
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