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Post by dem bones on Feb 17, 2021 10:41:43 GMT
What did Jack Adrian have to say about Hugh Lamb? Any rate, if we are talking about underwhelming endings to E. F. Benson stories, I'd name Bagnell Terrace - I couple of whiffs of holy Water and a few stern words and the 'spook' loses interest, I was enjoying it up until then. Jack Adrian was, by my father's account, a humorless and pompous windbag and I have a very long letter from him to my dad which does rather confirm this. He had some small correspondence with Jack Adrian, none of which was friendly. Just sayin'. I was lucky enough to share a correspondence with your dad at the time, and, without betraying a confidence, it's probably fair to say Hugh was enjoying himself. Sample line; "I always start my letters to him 'Dear Silly Man ..."
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inspiredlamb
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Post by inspiredlamb on Feb 17, 2021 16:36:20 GMT
Jack Adrian was, by my father's account, a humorless and pompous windbag and I have a very long letter from him to my dad which does rather confirm this. He had some small correspondence with Jack Adrian, none of which was friendly. Just sayin'. I was lucky enough to share a correspondence with your dad at the time, and, without betraying a confidence, it's probably fair to say Hugh was enjoying himself. Sample line; "I always start my letters to him 'Dear Silly Man ..." He rarely took himself too seriously. That was definitely one of his best attributes.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 5, 2021 6:37:55 GMT
Hugh Grainger watch continued. Hugh narrates another of Benson's lesser supernatural efforts. E. F. Benson - Boxing Night: ( The Tatler, 30 Nov. 1923: Tanya Kirk [ed.], Spirit of the Seasons: Christmas Hauntings, 2018). Woollards Farm on Romney Marsh is home to sisters Ellen and Rebecca, whose avaricious Uncle Alfred is sworn to take it from them by fair means or foul. On Christmas night, the sisters share a dream premonition of a soldier battering each to death with a rifle butt to steal their savings from behind a wall panel. Late on December 26th, a soldier in khaki arrives at the farm seeking shelter from a snow blizzard .... Also of some relevance to this thread, as mentioned elsewhere, Tanya Kirk's introduction to the story concludes: "He never married and critics have often inferred from his writings that he was something of a misogynist." It was 'Jack Adrian's assertion, in his introduction to The Flint Knife, that Benson "hated women" caused a contemporaneous dispute with Cynthia Reavell of the Tilling Society while he and Hugh Lamb were sparring over the number of ghost stories contained in The Countess of Lowndes Square.
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