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books. He seized upon every opportunity for writing a letter, and every letter, whether to a publisher or to a cobbler, was written with the same care." About a thousand of his letters have survived, and several sequences of them have been published in limited editions. The letters reveal a lively, intelligent and absorbent mind, but because of Rolfe’s paranoiac tendencies they are often disputatious and recriminatory. Among the commentators who rated Rolfe’s letters more highly than his fiction was the poet
397:(1901), in which ‘Don Friderico’ and his teenage acolytes embark on long walking tours in the Italian countryside, even as far from Rome as the eastern coast of Italy. The youths’ leader, the sixteen-year-old Toto, recounts tales of saints behaving like pagan gods. The stories are richly Catholic and unashamedly superstitious, and the saints who figure in them are hedonistic, vengeful and (though not licentious) entirely comfortable with nudity, diametrically opposite to any Protestant ideal of sainthood.
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472:(written 1912–1913, published 1995), of which only a few pages have survived. Set in the fifth century, the novel was to have as its protagonist a middle-aged Byzantine bishop named Septimius, preoccupied with the likelihood of another of the barbarian attacks which had been terrifying his Venetian flock. The novel was a departure for Rolfe, as his four previous autobiographical works had been set in his own time.
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young male pupils he was teaching at the time unanimously recalled in later life that there had never been any hint of impropriety in his relations with them. As he himself matured, Rolfe's settled sexual preference was for late adolescents. Towards the end of his life he made his only explicit reference to his specific sexual age preference, in one of the Venice letters to
431:(written 1900–1904, published 1958) tells the story of Rolfe's first attempts to achieve publication, with starring roles for Henry Harland, John Lane and Grant Richards. In this novel Rolfe has given himself a new fictional name, 'Nicholas Crabbe,' and its plot is a blow-by-blow chronicle of events, reproducing many of the publishers' letters and Rolfe's replies to them.
413:, and England's national flower) who, having originally been rejected for the priesthood, finds himself the object of a spectacular and highly improbable change of mind on the part of the church hierarchy, who then elect him to the papacy. Rose takes the name Hadrian VII and embarks upon a programme of ecclesiastical and geopolitical reform; the only English pope was
953:'I was baptized iii Jan. 1886 at St. Aloysius, Oxford, receiving the names "Frederick William". "Serafino" was conferred by Bishop Hugh Macdonald in Aberdeen Cathedral on my profession in the third order of St. Francis. "Austin Lewis Mary" were conferred by Cardinal Manning in the chapel of Archbishop's House, Westminster, at my confirmation.' A.J.A. Symons,
272:, who, he claimed, adopted him as a grandson and gave him the use of the title of "Baron Corvo". This became his best-known pseudonym; he also called himself "Frank English", "Frederick Austin" and "A. Crab Maid", among others. More often he abbreviated his own name to "Fr. Rolfe" (an ambiguous usage, suggesting he was the priest he had hoped to become).
279:. He lived in the era before the welfare state, and relied on benefactors for support but he had an argumentative nature and a tendency to fall out spectacularly with most of the people who tried to help him and offer him room and board. Eventually, out of money and out of luck, he died in Venice from a stroke on 25 October 1913. He was buried in
445:'s safe, published 1934) is set in Venice and reintroduces the reader to 'Nicholas Crabbe.' It has three interlocking plots: Crabbe’s efforts to get his books published, in the face of obstacles placed in their way by his friends and agents in England, and his consequent economic difficulties; his rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl from the
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Rolfe was entirely comfortable with his homosexuality and associated and corresponded with a number of other homosexual
Englishmen. Early in his life he wrote a fair amount of idealistic but mawkish poetry about boy martyrs and the like. These and his Toto stories contain pederastic elements, but the
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Rolfe's early books were politely reviewed but none of them was enough of a success to secure an income for its author, whose posthumous reputation began to dim. Within a very few years, however, coteries of readers began to discover a common interest in his work, and a resilient literary cult began
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It was for this reason that Rolfe never undertook any formal training in either painting or photography. His paintings and designs, including several for the covers of his own books, were bold and surprisingly accomplished amateur efforts. He executed some of the most impressive of them when he was
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for the London stage. Two biographies of Rolfe appeared in the 1970s. These led to his inclusion in all the major works of reference and engendered a stream of academic theses on him. Although his books have remained in print, no substantial monograph has ever appeared in
English on his work. With
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Rolfe never lost his conviction that he had been called to the
Catholic priesthood. When he worked in his late teens and early twenties as a schoolmaster, and later when he tried his hand at painting and photography, he saw these as stop-gap occupations, means of earning an income until the Church
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Rolfe was an obsessive letter writer. John Holden recalled that "Corvo was one of those men who never speak a word if they can write it. We lived in the same house, a very little one, yet he would always communicate with me by note if I was not in the same room with him. He had dozens of letter
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formed a chaste but passionate friendship with Rolfe. For two years this relationship involved letters "not only weekly, but at times daily, and of an intimate character, exhaustingly charged with emotion." There was a falling out in 1906. For some time previously, Benson had made plans to write
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Those of whom it is either speculated or surmised that they had sexual relations with Rolfe – Aubrey
Thurstans, Sholto Osborne Gordon Douglas, John 'Markoleone', Ermenegildo Vianello and the other Venetian gondoliers – were all sexually mature young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one
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and employment of her as his assistant and gondolier, dressed in male garments to avoid scandal; and the transcendent beauty of Venice itself and the role it plays in the lives of its votaries. Extracts from the novel’s beautiful descriptions of Venice appear regularly in guidebooks and modern
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in 1890–91, upon his return from Rome, and experimented with colour and underwater pictures. He began to lose interest, however, and really only took photography up again when he returned to Italy in 1908. His photographic career has been fully documented in Donald
Rosenthal's book
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Rolfe took an interest in photography throughout his life, but never achieved any more than basic competence. While he began to experiment with photography when he was a schoolmaster, it was his time in Rome in 1889–90 that introduced him to the work of the 'Arcadian' photographers
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The book was very successfully adapted by Peter Luke as a stage production in London in 1968, in which the part of
Hadrian/Rolfe was played by Alec McCowen. A further production starring Barry Morse played in Australia, on Broadway, and in a short United States national
694:, one of the century's iconic biographies, and this brought Rolfe's life and work to the attention of a wider public. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a further surge of interest in him which became known as "the Corvo revival", including a successful adaptation of
771:(1903-4, posthumously published 1958, a limited edition of 215 numbered copies in slipcase were to have been issued with the trade edition but industrial action and other factors meant the trade edition ended up with precedence)
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The similarities between the work of Rolfe and Joyce were first remarked upon by Stuart
Gilbert: ‘Had the Fates been kinder, that unhappy genius might have moved parallel, if on a somewhat lower plane, to Joyce’s. Nicolas
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Library, University of Oxford. The full text of the fragment, edited by Andrew Eburne, may be found in
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600:. His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the
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were collaborations with Harry Pirie-Gordon. These works differ from the autobiographical novels in two respects: they are set in previous centuries, and the principal protagonist in each is not Rolfe's
791:(1907-8, printed 1909 but not published, posthumously published Chatto & Windus, London, 1963, a limited edition of 200 numbered copies in slipcase were issued at the same time as the trade edition)
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anthologies. Unlike Rolfe’s other novels, this one ends happily, with a lucrative book contract and a declaration of love. "The desire and pursuit of the whole" is the definition of love, according to
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Greene's biographer claimed that Pinkie, the protagonist in "Brighton Rock", was based on Rolfe. See Norman Sherry, "The Life of Graham Greene": Volume One 1904–1939, Jonathan Cape, 1989, p.645.
202:(Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
421:. More self-indulgently, he takes the opportunity to review his past life and to reward or punish his friends and acquaintances according to what he believes to be their just deserts.
1039:, Hamish Hamilton, 1977, p.248, quoting a letter in the Martyr Worthy Collection, Columbia University Library). Nicholson is the person Rolfe is least likely to have lied to about this.
226:, London, the son of piano maker and tuner James Rolfe (c. 1827-1902) and Ellen Elizabeth, née Pilcher. He left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher. He taught briefly at
405:(1904), with an original and compelling plot, is Rolfe's most famous novel. Rolfe portrays himself as an Englishman with a quintessentially English name, 'George Arthur Rose,' (after
343:, but Benson decided that he should not be associated (according to writer Brian Masters) "with a Venetian pimp and procurer of boys". Afterwards, Benson satirised Rolfe in his novel
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the growing academic interest in the history of literary modernism and acknowledgement of the central importance of life writing in its genesis, the true importance of Rolfe’s
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298:, an "experiment in biography" regarded as a minor classic in the field. This same work reveals that Rolfe had an unlikely enthusiast in the person of
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Finding aid to David Roth Martyr Worthy collection of
Frederick William Rolfe papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Osborne Gordon Douglas (1873–1934), educated at Fettes College, Portsmouth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, author of
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Finding aid to Stuart B. Schimmel collection of Frederick Rolfe papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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in Oxford – where scholars could bathe naked – "surveying the yellow flesh tints of youth with unbecoming satisfaction".
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in Rome, but was thrown out by both due to his inability to concentrate on priestly studies and his erratic behaviour.
1288:(1906), where the central figure is closely modelled on Rolfe (who in turn pillories the novel as "The Sensiblist" in
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347:. Rolfe returned the favour a few years later, putting a caricature of Benson named "Bobugo Bonsen" in a book named
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living in Christchurch in 1890 and 1891, including a small but striking oil painting of St Michael.
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authorities came to their senses and agreed with his own firm view that he had a priestly vocation.
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1306:. Prime Books, 2005. Dedicated to Rolfe, this book is a clear homage to Hadrian the Seventh.
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The Clerk without a Benefice: A Study of Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo’s Conversion and Vocation.
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19:"Baron Corvo" redirects here. For the Italian director who used the same pseudonym, see
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Sexual Heretics; Male Homosexuality in English literature from 1850–1900 – an anthology
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Without Prejudice. One Hundred Letters From Frederick William Rolfe to John Lane
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the hero, Nicholas Crabbe, becomes a time traveller and discovers that he is
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has come into focus. His influence has been discerned in novels written by
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The Colt & The Porcupine: Four Letters from John Holden to A J A Symons
538:(1974). He also published an entertaining but unreliable work of history,
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In 1904, soon after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest, the convert
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Paradise of Cities: Venice and its Nineteenth Century Visitors
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Tarcissus the Boy Martyr of Rome in the Diocletian Persecution
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Woolf, Cecil, Brocard Sewell, and St Albert’s Press. 1964.
1313:. Edizioni Radio Spada, Cermenate, 2017, ISBN 9788898766345
511:, although there is a strong degree of identification. In
249:. With his conversion came a strongly-felt vocation to the
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891:(University of Iowa School of Journalism, Iowa City, 1964)
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The Photographs of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo 1860–1913
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The Photographs of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo 1860–1913
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Baron Corvo. Il viaggio sentimentale di Frederick Rolfe
1052:(1914) and of several volumes of poetry, most notably
765:(Grant Richards, London: E. P. Dutton, New York, 1901)
1377:, Strange Attractor, London, 2013, ISBN 9788898766345
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There is one work in Italian: Carla Marengo Vaglio,
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1295:Bradshaw, David. "Rolfe, Frederick William" in the
1027:Rolfe to Fox, 13 January 1910, in Cecil Woolf ed.,
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is thus essentially an exercise in wish-fulfilment.
1168:W H Auden, ‘Foreword’ to the second impression of
978:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
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885:(Privately printed for Allen Lane, London, 1963)
815:(Privately printed, London, 1929) (an attack on
1407:1st separate ed. Aylesford: St. Albert’s Press.
813:The Bull against the Enemy of the Anglican race
1207:See David Dougill, 'Firbank: A Long Look', in
1398:A Bibliography of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo
969:"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
865:The Letters of Baron Corvo to Kenneth Grahame
470:The Freeing of the Soul, or The Seven Degrees
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1253:] Crabbe…had a good deal in common with
1361:The Corvo Cult: The History of An Obsession
1349:. London, Routledge, Keegan and Paul, 1970.
1278:. Putnam, New York, 1977. SBN: 399-12009-2.
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441:(written 1910–1913, thought lost, found in
323:(1932), recalls "Frederick Baron Corvo" at
268:At this stage he entered the circle of the
16:British writer and photographer (1860–1913)
1144:English Literature in Transition 1880–1920
747:(John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1898)
1375:Raven: The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo
417:, and the last non-Italian pope had been
1528:19th-century English short story writers
1410:Woolf, Cecil and Sewell, Brocard (eds).
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934:'Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe'
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498:(published posthumously in 1935). Both
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1297:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1229:See Steven Moore, "Alexander Theroux's
1146:, Volume 38 Number 4, 1995, pp.492–495.
975:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
809:(1909, published Cassell, London, 1934)
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1425:Works by Frederick Rolfe in eBook form
1091:Howse, Christopher (3 February 2007).
841:A Letter from Baron Corvo to John Lane
797:(1909–11, posthumously published 1935)
108:Novelist, artist, fantasist, eccentric
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1081:are all in their mid- to late-teens.
855:(The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1960)
612:, a town dominated by the Duchess's
290:Rolfe's life provided the basis for
1638:Alumni of St Mary's College, Oscott
1583:20th-century British letter writers
1578:19th-century British letter writers
1363:, Strange Attractor, London, 2014;
1290:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
1233:and the Tradition of Learned Wit,"
1170:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
1079:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
807:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
785:(Chatto & Windus, London, 1905)
779:(Chatto & Windus, London, 1904)
439:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
141:The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
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1573:20th-century English photographers
1568:19th-century English photographers
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1183:Frederick Rolfe's Holywell Banners
879:(Privately Printed, Detroit, 1963)
835:The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda
622:in 1895–96 and later collected in
587:(photograph by Rolfe, ca. 1890–92)
532:The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda
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1678:Alumni of the Scots College, Rome
1443:Works by or about Frederick Rolfe
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1304:The Translation of Father Torturo
1159:, Callum James Books, 2007, p.12.
763:Chronicles of the House of Borgia
751:The Attack on St Winefrede's Well
540:Chronicles of the House of Borgia
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261:and in 1889 was a student at the
161:Chronicles of the House of Borgia
44:Rolfe as a seminarian, c. 1889-90
1663:English male short story writers
1553:20th-century English LGBT people
1548:19th-century English LGBT people
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847:Letters to C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon
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214:Rolfe's grave on the island of
1658:People from the City of London
1608:English Roman Catholic writers
1523:20th-century English novelists
1518:19th-century English novelists
1316:Miernik, Mirosław Aleksander.
1259:James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
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681:Posthumous literary reputation
662:From 1895 to 1899 he lived in
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1633:Converts to Roman Catholicism
1543:20th-century English painters
1538:19th-century English painters
1172:, Cassell, 1953, pp.vii-viii.
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873:(Nicholas Vane, London, 1962)
861:(Nicholas Vane, London, 1960)
849:(Nicholas Vane, London, 1959)
837:(Nicholas Vane, London, 1957)
339:jointly with Rolfe a book on
245:in 1886 and was confirmed by
230:, where the then headmaster,
1588:English historical novelists
1563:20th-century Roman Catholics
1558:19th-century Roman Catholics
1276:Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo
1069:, Tarquinio and Lucrezia in
1037:Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo
1002:UK public library membership
897:(Cecil Woolf, London, 1966 )
877:The Architecture of Aberdeen
853:A Letter to Father Beauclerk
544:The Rubáiyát of Umar Khaiyám
321:Memories of a Misspent Youth
238:, became a lifelong friend.
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1513:Translators of Omar Khayyám
1458:(public domain audiobooks)
1414:. Icon books, London, 1965.
1196:Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo
1185:, Callum James Books, 2010.
915:(Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)
909:(Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)
903:(Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)
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228:The King's School, Grantham
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1673:British emigrants to Italy
1356:, Asphodel Editions, 2008.
1320:. Peter Lang Verlag, 2015.
867:(The Peacocks Press, 1962)
843:(The Peacocks Press, 1958)
831:(The Peacocks Press, 1952)
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371:Principal works of fiction
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1593:Photographers from London
829:Letters to Grant Richards
825:(The Corvine Press, 1950)
801:The Weird of the Wanderer
701:autobiographical fictions
513:The Weird of the Wanderer
490:The Weird of the Wanderer
255:St Mary's College, Oscott
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1452:Works by Frederick Rolfe
1434:Works by Frederick Rolfe
1386:. Cassell, London, 1934.
1324:Johnson, Pamela Hansford
1237:27.2 (Summer 1986): 235.
1050:A Theory of Civilization
871:Letters to R. M. Dawkins
859:Letters to Leonard Moore
672:Charles Sidney Beauclerk
585:Tito Biondi at Lake Nemi
571:Photography and painting
542:(1901), translations of
281:the San Michele cemetery
263:Pontifical Scots College
1648:LGBT people from London
1603:English Roman Catholics
1329:The Unspeakable Skipton
1235:Contemporary Literature
957:, Cassell, 1934, p.188.
940:, 2 June 2014; compare
735:Rolfe's works include:
602:Duchess Sforza Cesarini
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270:Duchess Sforza Cesarini
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169:Frederick William Rolfe
32:Frederick William Rolfe
1668:English male novelists
1643:English LGBT novelists
1033:John Gambril Nicholson
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1261:, Faber, 1952, p.95).
1113:, Winter 1982, p.199.
1073:, Renato and Eros in
823:Three Tales of Venice
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548:The Songs of Meleager
524:Three Tales of Venice
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236:Jesus College, Oxford
234:, later principal of
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1653:LGBT Roman Catholics
1412:New Quests for Corvo
1345:Reade, Brian (ed.).
1336:Norwich, John Julius
1067:Stories Toto Told Me
745:Stories Toto Told Me
624:Stories Toto Told Me
608:from the streets of
391:Stories Toto Told Me
285:Isola di San Michele
171:(surname pronounced
149:Stories Toto Told Me
1623:Writers from Venice
1618:English gay artists
1613:English gay writers
1384:The Quest for Corvo
1352:Rosenthal, Donald,
1299:(consulted online).
1286:The Sentimentalists
1274:Benkovitz, Miriam.
1155:Robert Scoble ed.,
1016:The Quest for Corvo
955:The Quest for Corvo
776:Hadrian the Seventh
692:The Quest for Corvo
594:Wilhelm von Gloeden
443:Chatto & Windus
402:Hadrian the Seventh
379:Rolfe's design for
345:The Sentimentalists
292:The Quest for Corvo
198:), better known as
136:Hadrian the Seventh
1302:Connell, Brendan.
1093:"Sacred mysteries"
1029:The Venice Letters
913:The Venice Letters
686:to form. In 1934
598:Guglielmo Plüschow
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447:Messina earthquake
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336:Robert Hugh Benson
313:Charles Masson Fox
222:Rolfe was born in
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1438:Project Gutenberg
1369:978-1-907222-30-6
1309:Fumagalli, Luca.
1231:Darconville's Cat
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