Abstract
Aldington remained in Aix throughout January and February 1962, working little, except to deal with mail which consisted mostly of enquiries about printing paperback editions of various translations. Fanchette, the Two Cities editor, irritated him by trying to garner royalties from Southern Illinois University Press for his introductory piece in The World of Lawrence Durrell.1 In mid-January Durrell drove to Aix to consult Aldington about a piece of historical fiction he was engaged in and we glimpse Aldington’s writing experience when he advises against Wardour Street dialogue, suggesting that conversations should be in standard English and period and setting should be conveyed by accurate rendering of local colour.
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John Pearson, in Façades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (London, 1978), describes Bryher as ‘this tiny millionairess in her old blue beret’ and gives several examples of her generosity in subsidising writers.
Intimate Portrait, p. 62. My account of this last trip of Aldington’s is much indebted to Norman T. Gates’s ‘Richard Aldington in Russia’, Texas Quarterly (Summer 1978) pp. 35–57.
V. M. Moldavsky, ‘Richard Aldington in Leningrad’, Neva (1963) no. 5, pp. 164–7. Translated into English by Robert J. Winter.
Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977). Novelist and short story writer, Secretary of the Soviet Writers Union 1959 to 1971, when he became chairman of its Administrative Board. Author of The Desert (1923),
Cities and Years (1924) and
The Rape of Europe (1933–35).
Valentin Katayev (b. 1897). Satirical writer, who achieved fame with Lonely White Sail (1936) and subsequently wrote on themes of revolutionary heroism, as in I am the Son of the Working People (1937).
Antony Curtis, Sunday Telegraph, 29 July 1962.
David Holloway, Daily Telegraph, 30 July 1962.
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Doyle, C. (1989). 1962. In: Richard Aldington: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10224-2_24
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