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Denton Welch
Maurice Denton Welch (29 March 1915 – 30 December 1948) was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Life Welch was born in Shanghai, China, to Arthur Joseph Welch, a wealthy British rubber merchant, and his American wife of Christian Science faith, Rosalind Bassett from New Bedford, Massachusetts. The youngest of four sons, Welch, was sent to a boarding school at the age of 11, after his mother died from wasting kidney disease. After a brief time at prep school in London, Welch was sent to Repton, where he was a contemporary of the writer Roald Dahl and actor Geoffrey Lumsden. By his and others' accounts, his time there was miserable, and he ran away prior to his last term. After leaving Repton, he studied art at Goldsmiths' in London with the intention of becoming a painter. Welch spent part of his pre-school childhood in China, and returned for a longer spell after he left Repton. He recorded this episode in his fictionalised auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery (London), National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Collection The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Youth Is Pleasure
''In Youth is Pleasure'' is the second published novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch. It was first published in February 1945 by Routledge. It was also the last novel to be issued in his lifetime. Background The title comes from a poem by the sixteenth century English poet Robert Wever. As originally published, the dustjacket, endpapers and frontispiece were designed by Welch. The frontispiece bears a dedication to his late mother. ''In Youth is Pleasure'' differs from Welch's other novels, and indeed most of his short stories, in that it is written in the third person. Set "several years" before World War II (identified as 1930 by Welch's biographer Michael De-la-Noy), it tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy, Orvil Pym, who spends a summer holiday at a country hotel outside London with his widowed father and two older brothers. As with virtually everything Welch wrote, it is strongly autobiographical, leading several commentators to simply observe that Orv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyelonephritis
Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection. Symptoms most often include fever and flank tenderness. Other symptoms may include nausea, burning with urination, and frequent urination. Complications may include pus around the kidney, sepsis, or kidney failure. It is typically due to a bacterial infection, most commonly ''Escherichia coli''. Risk factors include sexual intercourse, prior urinary tract infections, diabetes, structural problems of the urinary tract, and spermicide use. The mechanism of infection is usually spread up the urinary tract. Less often infection occurs through the bloodstream. Diagnosis is typically based on symptoms and supported by urinalysis. If there is no improvement with treatment, medical imaging may be recommended. Pyelonephritis may be preventable by urination after sex and drinking sufficient fluids. Once present it is generally treated with antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin or ceftriaxone. Thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. With a population of approximately 1.2 million people, Surrey is the 12th-most populous county in England. The most populated town in Surrey is Woking, followed by Guildford. The county is divided into eleven districts with borough status. Between 1893 and 2020, Surrey County Council was headquartered at County Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames (now part of Greater London) but is now based at Woodhatch Place, Reigate. In the 20th century several alterations were made to Surrey's borders, with territory ceded to Greater London upon its creation and some gained from the abolition of Middlesex. Surrey is bordered by Greater London to the north east, Kent to the east, Berkshire to the north west, West Sussex to the south, East Sussex to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumb Instrument
''Dumb Instrument'' is the title given to the posthumous 1976 anthology of poetry by the English writer and artist Denton Welch. It derives from the fifth line of a sestet which appears on the title page of the anthology only. Compiled by Jean-Louis Chevalier from Welch's papers held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and published by the Enitharmon Press, the anthology contains 58 poems, none of which had appeared in print before. As such, it is the last wholly new volume of Welch's writing to be issued to date. Background Welch had written poetry since childhood, but had an abiding sense of doubt as to his skill. In September 1938 he mentioned to his friend Maurice Cranston that he had some which he would like to get typed; according to Cranston this was the first inkling he ever had that Welch regarded himself as a poet. Nonetheless, his first ever published work was a poem, and during his lifetime nineteen appeared in various journals and magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Left My Grandfather's House
''I Left My Grandfather's House'' is an uncompleted autobiographical novel by the English author and painter Denton Welch. Written in March 1943 and left incomplete at the time of his death in 1948, it is an account of a walking tour Welch took in the summer of 1933, when he was eighteen. His travels took him from his grandfather's house in Henfield, West Sussex, through Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon, before returning to Henfield. The account of a second leg, in which he intended to follow the Pilgrims' Way, ends at Cocking. Summary Picaresque and episodic in nature, Denton's adventures include encounters with a tramp, a young man who attempts to con him out of money, various (sometimes none-too-hospitable) youth hostel proprietors and members of his own extended family, invariably on a quest for a bed for the night. Parts of the journey are lost to him, as he frankly remarks in the narrative: recounting his arrival at Castle Cary, Somerset ("I think because I liked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Denton Welch Journals
''The Denton Welch Journals'' refers to a number of works which published the notebooks of the English writer and painter Denton Welch. These he kept from July 1942 until four months before his death in 1948. To date, three versions have been issued: two published by Hamish Hamilton (1952 and 1973) and one by Viking Penguin (1984). Background Although published after his death, Michael De-la-Noy, in his introduction to the 1984 edition states that the "journals" title was the author's own, as Welch had never intended merely to keep a daily diary. As such, the notebooks include undated fragments, a substantial entry for an uncompleted novel, as well as poetry and longer prose passages (all of which were published separately). De-la-Noy observes that several of the entries seem intended as a recollection write-up for use elsewhere, potentially prompted by an anniversary or other memory-triggering event. As if to emphasise their non-linear nature, the manuscripts themselves are not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Last Sheaf
''A Last Sheaf'' is the title given to the second posthumous publication of works by the writer and painter Denton Welch. Published in 1951 by John Lehmann, it followed '' A Voice Through a Cloud'', issued by Lehmann the previous year. The collection was assembled by Welch's partner, Eric Oliver, with assistance from Lehmann and Welch's friend, Francis Streeten. It consists of five stories appearing for the first time, four previously-published stories and two stories published in full for the first time. Also included are sixty-seven short poems and nine monochrome reproductions of Welch's paintings, at least one of which ("The Coffin House") had previously accompanied the publication of a short story. Contained in the text are a number of Welch's "decorations", as he called them. The dustjacket states that it is "adapted" from a drawing by Welch, but the overall design is not his; nor are the endpaper illustrations. Contents Part One *Sickert at St. Peter's (first published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan State University Press
Michigan State University Press is the scholarly publishing arm of Michigan State University. Scholarly publishing at the university significantly predates the establishment of its press in 1947. By the 1890s the institution's Experiment Stations began issuing a broad range of influential publications in the natural sciences (including a beautifully illustrated Birds of Michigan in 1892) and as early as 1876, professor A.J. Cook commissioned a Lansing printer to issue his popular Manual of the Apiary, which ran through numerous editions and remained in print for nearly half a century. Located on the MSU campus in East Lansing East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Most of the city lies within Ingham County with a smaller portion extending north into Clinton County. At the 2020 Census the population was 47,741. Located directly east of the state capital ..., the press publishes principally in the areas of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, with special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Voice Through A Cloud
''A Voice Through a Cloud'' is an autobiographical novel by Denton Welch, who became a writer after a serious accident which had long-term effects on his health. The book describes his bicycle accident when he was an art student, and subsequent experiences in hospital wards and a nursing home. The book was almost complete when the writer died in December 1948 aged 33. Background Denton Welch was anxious to complete the novel when his health, precarious since his accident, was worsening. As described in the foreword: "As late as the summer of 1948, long after most people in his condition would have adopted the life of a permanent invalid, his tremendous will-power enabled him to live normally and even strenuously during the increasingly short intervals between the crises of his illness.... Towards the end he could only work for three or four minutes at a time... Complication after complication set in.... Even then, he made colossal and nearly successful attempts to finish the boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
''The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide'' (formerly ''The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review'') is a bimonthly, nationally distributed magazine of history, culture, and politics for LGBT people and their allies who are interested in the gamut of social, scientific, and cultural issues raised by same-sex sexuality. ''Library Journal'' (in its July 1995 issue) described it as “the journal of record for LGBT issues.” History Initially ''The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review'' was published by the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus. In 1996 the magazine was organized as a 501(c)(3) educational corporation. In 2000, the magazine’s name was changed to ''The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide'' to reflect its independent status, and in 2001 the Review started to publish on a bimonthly basis. Since around 2017 December, the Review says it has a circulation of about 9,000 regular subscribers. Current status Dr. Richard Schneider is editor-in-chief. Martha E. Stone is the literary editor. From the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brave And Cruel
''Brave and Cruel and Other Stories'' is the third book by the English author and painter Denton Welch. A collection of short stories, it was the last publication he worked on. It was issued by Hamish Hamilton with a publication date of 1948, but was released in January 1949, a few days after Welch's death. It consists of the title story, virtually a novella, and by far Welch's longest completed exercise in the form, and nine other much shorter stories. Background The idea for a collection of short stories had originated in 1944, when Hamish Hamilton had contacted Welch with a view to publishing some of the work that had already appeared in magazines and journals, along with unpublished pieces. However at that stage he did not have enough completed work to submit. In 1947 an attempt to interest his contracted publisher, Routledge, in nine short stories, ended in rejection, and mindful of the earlier approach, Welch returned to Hamish Hamilton. Hamilton's first inclination was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
