Rosamond Lehmann letters to Campbell Nairne, radio script, and clippings on Rex Warner, 1944-1946.

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Rosamond Lehmann letters to Campbell Nairne, radio script, and clippings on Rex Warner, 1944-1946.

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The collection consists of nine items, including: two letters to Campbell Nairne, 9 and 15 Nov. 1944, about preparing a script for a broadcast to newly-liberated France over the BBC about novelist Rex Warner; two copies of the Rex Warner script, one in manuscript, one typescript, circa 1944, commenting on his background and novels; also, five newspaper clippings, in French, relating to Warner, all 1946.

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Warner, Rex, 1905-1986

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Rex Warner was born in Birmingham and was raised in the bucolic splendour of the Cotswold Hills, his father a clergyman, his mother a teacher. Winning a scholarship to Oxford, Warner developed an odd mix of intellectual intensity and rugged rusticism, which would inform his writing throughout his life. Popular with critics but seldom with the public, a central theme of his writing is man as a political entity, exemplified by his celebrated novels of Classical Rome and Greece. From th...

Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990

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Rosamond Lehmann was an author, editor, and translator, probably most widely known as a novelist. Born in England to a well-to-do Edwardian family, she attended Cambridge and found success with her first novel, the semiautobiographical Dusty Answer. Her work had a particularly feminine quality, featuring lyrical prose and psychological insight, but slightly repetitive plots; she was often compared with Virginia Woolf as a stylist with a strongly feminine perspective. She also served as vice-pres...

Nairne, Campbell

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