Abstract
Fortified financially and psychologically by the burgeoning success of his first novel, Aldington and Brigit headed south in November 1929 for Italy. Pursued by rain, they stopped only briefly in Florence and Rome. After renewing acquaintance with Lawrence’s friend, the publisher Pino Orioli, in Florence and meeting Alec Randall and other friends in Rome, with a copy of Norman Douglas’s Siren Land in hand Aldington made for Naples and remained for some time at Amalfi before going on to Palermo and Agrigentum.
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Notes
Aldington, All Men Are Enemies (London, 1933) p.375.
Harold Monro, review of Aldington Collected Poems, Criterion, vol. IX (1929–30) pp. 518–22.
James Hanley (b.1901). Novelist and poet, whose chief work is The Furys (1935). Aldington wrote introductions for two of Hanley’s publications,
The Last Voyage (London 1931) and
The German Prisoner (London 1933).
Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett: A Biography (New York, 1978) p. 96.
Miriam J. Benkovitz, ‘Nine for Reeves: Letters from Richard Aldington’, BNYPL, vol. 69 (1965) pp. 349–74, esp. pp. 351–3.
Two reviewers who make this point are Richard Church in the Spectator (3 May 1930, p. 746) and the
TLS reviewer (23 May 1930, p. 428).
Sunday Referee, 15 and 22 June 1930; included in Selected Writings of Richard Aldington 1928–1960, edited by Alister Kershaw (Carbondale, 1970) pp. 24–31.
Wyndham Lewis, Satire and Fiction (London, 1930).
Louise Morgan, ‘Writing a Best-Seller in Seven Weeks’, Everyman, vol. IV (1930–31) pp. 101–2.
Sidney Schiff (1868–1944) wrote fiction under the pen-name Stephen Hudson. Works collected under the title A True Story (London, 1965).
Guiseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller (Florence, 1937).
Mark Holloway, Norman Douglas (London, 1976) p. 386. Charles Prentice of Chattos wrote to R.A. on 31 January 1931: ‘Frieda certainly owes you a lot, for without your help Frere would not have been able to put this through’. (Carbondale).
Norman Douglas, Paneros: Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like (London, 1931).
Michael B. Thompson, ‘Richard Aldington and T. S. Eliot’, Yeats Eliot Review, vol. 6 (1979) no. 1, pp. 3–9.
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Doyle, C. (1989). A Career as a Novelist, 1929–31. In: Richard Aldington: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10224-2_11
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