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Despite his wide range as a novelist, biographer, essayist, and literary critic, Kingsmill is best known today as an anthologist. He compiled at least eight of his humorous and original anthologies (depending on how they are classified) between 1929 and 1955. The first,
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from 1945 to 1949. He married Eileen FitzGerald in 1915 and there was one daughter. The marriage broke up in 1927. Kingsmill married a second time in 1934 to
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571:(1944) Essays on genealogies containing studies of Elizabeth, Cromwell, Napoleon and Lincoln, prefixed by a closely written chapter on The Genealogy of Hitler' ("one of the most brilliant that he ever wrote" - Holroyd).
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541:(1938). Kingsmill was unsympathetic to Lawrence. The biography's inadequacy "lies in Kingsmill's reluctance to linger for any length of time upon the positive nature and quality of Lawrence's genius".
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is brought back to life for six weeks in the year 1943, and is able to read what his critics have written about him and react. Creative literary criticism.
382:(1932). Biography. Holroyd calls this "most skilfully written and put together", but it has also been accused of being "hostile" and "malicious".
316:(1928). Biography, written in an informal style (the subject referred to throughout as "Matt"). Contains "a disproportionate degree of censure".
33:(21 November 1889 â 15 May 1949), who dropped his surname for professional purposes, was a versatile British writer and journalist. The writers
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559:(1940). Generally regarded as Kingsnill's most satisfactory novel, an account of marital incompatibility with some autobiographical elements.
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described it as "the most brilliant ever written on
Dickens", but "so unremittingly 'against' that it might give a misleading impression".
300:(1924). Includes three short novels: 'W.J', 'The End of the World' and 'The Disintegration of a Politician'. Published at his own expense.
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577:(1947) travelogue, with Hesketh Pearson. One review suggested that they had invented the conversation travel book as a new art form.
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411:(1933). His best biography (Holroyd), although "his love of Johnson sometimes softened the edge of his normally acute criticisms".
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was so enthusiastic about it that he forwarded a copy to Adolf Hitler. According to
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to the war poet
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for the title of his memoir of Kingsmill's friendships with
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589:(1955). Last completed anthology, published posthumously.
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The Best of Hugh Kingsmill: Selections from his Writings
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