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    Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London...
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  • has anonymous sex. On the train home, Will reads Valmouth, a novel by Ronald Firbank, given to him by his best friend, James. James is a hard-working doctor...
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  • railway mechanical engineer Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), English novelist Thomas Firbank (1910–2000), Canadian memoirist Thomas Firbank (MP) (1850–1910), British...
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  • Valmouth is a 1919 novel by British author Ronald Firbank. Valmouth is an imaginary English spa resort that attracts centenarians owing to its famed pure...
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  • Its inspiration was a line in the 1925 novel Sorrow in Sunlight by Ronald Firbank, in which the main character, Miami Mouth, circulates through a party...
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  • opposite view to Conrad's publishers when he advised the British novelist Ronald Firbank to change the title of his 1924 novel Sorrow in Sunlight to Prancing...
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  • her grandfather Joseph Firbank (1819–1886) built the family fortune as a railway contractor. Her older brother Ronald Firbank became famous after his...
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  • Richardson The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (England) Vainglory by Ronald Firbank (England) Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Genre fiction The Thirty-Nine...
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  • stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of her works of fiction have been adapted for film: The Company...
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  • engineer and author William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing Ronald Firbank, novelist Pat Fish, songwriter and musician James Elroy Flecker, poet...
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  • which he had contributed in the past. In 1996, Dalkey published Moore's Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials. Moore was managing...
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    Hollinghurst, Faber and Faber, 2001 ISBN 978-0571207053 Three Novels by Ronald Firbank, 2000 ISBN 978-0141182193 1974: Newdigate Prize 1989: Somerset Maugham...
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    (1950) Ronald Firbank (1951) The Denton Welch Journals [as editor] (1952) The Flower in Season (1953) Elizabeth Bowen (1954) Aldous Huxley (1954) Ronald Firbank...
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    René Daumal, The Lie of the Truth Elaine Equi, Views Without Rooms Ronald Firbank, Firbankiana Series VI (31-36) David Hockney, Picasso St. Teresa/Simone...
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  • (The Caprices), a series of prints by Goya Caprice, a 1917 novel by Ronald Firbank Caprice, a 1929 adaptation by Philip Moeller of a play by Sil-Vara Caprice...
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    Broadway. She also appeared in the 1958 musical Valmouth, adapted from a Ronald Firbank novel of the same name. The next years saw Reading spending time abroad...
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    master of the camp novel", along with Thomas Love Peacock, Max Beerbohm, Ronald Firbank, E. F. Benson and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The literary critic and writer...
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  • (1963) is a light piece, playing on the aerated, wispy dialogue of Ronald Firbank, an undervalued writer whom Brophy much praised. The novel portrays...
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    Olympic gold medalist and Wimbledon Champion Lionel Elvin – Educationist Ronald Firbank – Novelist Billy Fiske – Bobsleigh Olympian and first American fatality...
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  • They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating Ronald Firbank) with no success at gaining publication. The rejection of their great...
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  • Painted Side of the Rocket album. In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of...
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  • Chislehurst. In 1883, Firbank married Jane Harriette Garrett (1851–1924). They had four children: Joseph Sydney (1884–1904), Arthur Annesley Ronald (1886–1926,...
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    recognise Ronald Firbank as an accomplished author and, together with the writer Osbert Sitwell, provided an introduction to the first edition of Firbank's collected...
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    documentary. Precious Few, a play about Jenkins and the English novelist Ronald Firbank, by Terry Sneed, premiered in 1994 at Wildwood Park for the Performing...
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  • or The Little Female Academy Anne Fine (born 1947) Madame Doubtfire Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) Tibor Fischer (born 1959) Under the Frog Catherine Fisher...
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    University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 March 2013. Brooke, Jocelyn (1962). Ronald Firbank: John Betjeman. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Games, Stephen; et al...
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  • Greek Catholic Church; Gulag survivor; beatified by Pope John Paul II Ronald Firbank: British novelist[citation needed] Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet,...
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    His influence has been discerned in novels written by Henry Harland, Ronald Firbank, Graham Greene, and Alexander Theroux, and in his coinage of neologisms...
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    74: Robert Bentley Todd, physician 76: Colen Campbell, architect 78: Ronald Firbank, novelist Upper Brook Street 1: Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish...
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  • performances. Wilson wrote the musical Valmouth in 1958, based on a Ronald Firbank novel set in a seaside resort. In 1964 he wrote Divorce Me, Darling...
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