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Half an Arch

A Memoir

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Half An Arch is the compelling autobiography of one of the most distinctive English writers of the late twentieth century, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. In The Rise and Fall of the English Nanny, The Public School Phenomenon, and Doctors, Gathorne-Hardy explored three apparently familiar institutions with unprecedented originality and depth. Now the biographer of writer and adventurer Gerald Brenan and American sexologist Alfred Kinsey brings the same rigour, perception and sensitivity to bear on the story of his own life, as he chronicles, vividly but without sentimentality, the brutal decline in the fortunes of the clever and colourful Gathorne-Hardy family in the aftermath of two world wars.

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Timewell Press

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1857252012

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9781857252019

Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle

A Biography

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle

A Biography

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

A masterpiece which delights from first page to last.' TLS 'Very clever, very funny and very bold.' Victoria Glendinning, Times Born in 1894 to a well-off military family, Gerard Brenan was expected to follow the family tradition. But at Radley school he discovered a love of books and an urge to break the mould, which led him to abscond to Europe for six months. After the First World War he went to Spain, where he found the inspiration for his life's work (and began an affair with Dora Carrington.) Come the 1930s his life changed again, with marriage and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, which inspired his masterpiece The Spanish Labyrinth (1943). Drawing on long personal acquaintance as well as a wealth of unpublished correspondence, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy looks unflinchingly at the whole of this remarkable man of letters - from his venturesome spirit to his troublesome sexuality to his literary accomplishment. 'By no means unworthy to stand beside P N Furbank's Forster, Michael Holroyd's Strachey or Quentin Bell's Woolf... Affectionate but acerbic, learned but witty, elegant but relaxed, [Gathorne-Hardy] entertains as consistently as he informs.' Independent on Sunday

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Faber & Faber

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0571316816

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9780571316816

The Public School Phenomenon

597–1977

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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The Public School Phenomenon

597–1977

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

The public schools of England have long been praised and reviled in equal measure. Do they perpetuate elites and unjust divisions of social class? Do they improve or corrupt young minds and bodies? Should they be abolished? Are they in fact the form of education we would all wish for our children if we could only afford the fees? Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's classic study of Britain's 'independent sector' of schools first appeared in 1977 and still stands as the most widely admired history of the subject, ranging across 1400 years in its spirited investigation. Provocative and comprehensive, witty and revealing, it traces the arc by which schools that were, circa 1900, typically 'frenziedly repressive about sex, odiously class-conscious and shut off into tight, conventional, usually brutal little total communities' gradually evolved into acknowledged centres of academic excellence, as keen on science as organised games, 'fairly relaxed about sex, and moderate in discipline' - but to which access still 'depends largely on class and entirely on money.

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Faber & Faber

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0571320937

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9780571320936

The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

First published in 1972, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny became an instant classic of social history - a groundbreaking study of the golden era of an extraordinary and exclusive British institution. Drawing upon extensive paper research and interviews with former nannies and their charges, Gathorne-Hardy offers 'a study of a unique and curious way of bringing up children, which evolved among the upper and upper-middle-classes during the nineteenth century, flourished for approximately eighty years and then, with the Second World War, vanished for ever.' The nanny hereby earns her place in the story of the British Empire; also in the histories of psychology, child-rearing and British ruling class mores. 'Marvellously researched and beautifully written.' W. H. Auden, Observer 'Enough to delight the sternest critic.' Auberon Waugh, Harpers & Queen

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Faber & Faber

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0571321704

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9780571321704

Particle Theory

A Novel

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Particle Theory

A Novel

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Two orphaned boys - one Russian (Ivan), and one British (Michael) -may or may not be brothers, Ivan is brought up brutally on the bleak rural steppes, while Michael is cosseted by his grandmother in the Home Counties. And yet they coexist in a sort of parallel universe' their lives interconnected, physically in the text, as well as throug a common yearning - to discover their origins and purpose in life and to find elusive romantic and emotional fulfilment. Ivan manages to escape from his past and present to find a new life abroad. He is in almost constant motion, where Michael remains more or less rooted to the spot. His journey of discovery is through a strange, obsessive internal landscape. Gathorne-Hardy combines a rare narrative skill with compassion and humour

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Random House

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144813045X

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9781448130450

Witcraft

The Invention of Philosophy in English

By: Jonathan Rée

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Witcraft

The Invention of Philosophy in English

By: Jonathan Rée

An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.

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Yale University Press

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0300248806

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A war of individuals

Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War

By: Jonathan Atkin

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A war of individuals

Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War

By: Jonathan Atkin

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete picture of this fascinating form of anti-war expression.

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Manchester University Press

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1847795412

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The Blunt Affair

Official secrecy and treason in literature, television and film, 1980–89

By: Jonathan Bolton

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The Blunt Affair

Official secrecy and treason in literature, television and film, 1980–89

By: Jonathan Bolton

The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public’s attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt’s exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War intensifying, patriotism running high during the Falklands War and the AIDS crisis leading to widespread homophobia, these notorious traitors were more relevant than ever. This book explores how they were depicted in literature, television and film throughout the 1980s. Examining works by an array of distinguished writers, including Dennis Potter, Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard and John le Carré, it sheds new light on the affair, asking why such privileged young men chose to betray their country, whether loyalty to one’s friends is more important than patriotism and whether we can really trust the intelligence services.

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Manchester University Press

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1526148455

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Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)

The Permanent Rebel

By: Jonathan Croall

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Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)

The Permanent Rebel

By: Jonathan Croall

A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to ‘that dreadful school’ which continues to this day – Summerhill. First published in 1983, this sympathetic but critical exploration of his iconoclastic ideas and personality is the result of interviews with two hundred ex-pupils, parents and teachers about life at Summerhill, and of the practicality of Neill’s philosophy about child freedom. Jonathan Croall has also drawn on many unpublished letters and documents, which help to illuminate Neill’s personal struggles, and his analysis and friendship with Homer Lane, Wilhelm Stekel and Wilhelm Reich. The result is a fascinating and revealing portrait of a remarkable man who, in his absolute determination to be ‘on the side of the child’, remained in permanent opposition to the adult world.

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1135047308

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Half an Arch

A Memoir

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Half an Arch

A Memoir

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Benjamin Disraeli

By: Jonathan Parry

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Benjamin Disraeli

By: Jonathan Parry

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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OUP Oxford

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0191647519

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The Airship Ladyship Adventure

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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The Airship Ladyship Adventure

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Launched by mistake in a magnificent airship, a young girl embarks on some harrowing adventures.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0397317271

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9780397317271

The Public School Phenomenon

597–1977

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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597–1977

By: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Half an Arch

Half an Arch

Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle

Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle

The Public School Phenomenon

The Public School Phenomenon

The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny

The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny

Particle Theory

Particle Theory

Witcraft

Witcraft

A war of individuals

A war of individuals

The Blunt Affair

The Blunt Affair

Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)

Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)

Half an Arch

Half an Arch

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

The Airship Ladyship Adventure

The Airship Ladyship Adventure

The Public School Phenomenon

The Public School Phenomenon

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