Desmond MacCarthy
Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy (born May 20, 1877 in Plymouth , Devon , † June 7, 1952 in Cambridge ) was a British journalist , literary and theater critic . He was a member of the FRSL and the Bloomsbury Group .
Live and act
MacCarthy studied at Eton College and Trinity College , Cambridge, where he was part of the elite Cambridge Apostles secret society . There he met Lytton Strachey , Bertrand Russell and GE Moore . Logan Pearsall Smith was also one of his friends . In 1903 he began to work as a journalist. In 1906 he married Mary (1882-1953), called Molly, the daughter of Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (1839-1916), who was also associated with the Bloomsbury Group as a writer. Between 1906 and 1910 he wrote for The New Quarterly . In 1910 he helped as secretary in the organization of the planned exhibition by Roger Fry Manet and the Post-Impressionists in the London Grafton Galleries and wrote the catalog text.
During the First World War , MacCarthy served as an ambulance driver in France and temporarily worked for the British Naval Intelligence Department . From 1913 he wrote theater reviews for the New Statesman . Between 1920 and 1927 he worked there as a literary editor; Among other things, he wrote a weekly published column, which he signed with "Affable Hawk". In 1927 he began to review books for the BBC in the fledgling medium of broadcasting . In 1928 he became editor of Life and Letters and literary critic of the Sunday Times . In 1951 he was knighted .
MacCarthy and his wife Mary had two sons and a daughter, Rachel. She married the literary historian David Cecil ; Her son was the actor Jonathan Cecil . Mary and Desmond MacCarthy are buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
Fonts
- The Court Theater (1907)
- Portraits (1931)
- Drama (1940)
- Shaw (1951)
- Memories (1953)
- Theater (1955)
Secondary literature
- Noel Annan: The Intellectual Aristocracy , in JH Plumb: Studies in Social History: A Tribute to GM Trevelyan Longmans, Green, London 1955, p. 257
- Todd Avery: Close Affectionate Friends; Desmond and Molly MacCarthy and the Bloomsbury Group , The Lilly Library, Indiana University Press, 1999
- Todd Avery: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: Bloomsberries . Cecil Woolf, London 2010
- David Cecil (Ed.): Desmond MacCarthy, the Man and His Writings (1984)
Web links
- Literature by and about Desmond MacCarthy in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Desmond MacCarthy portrayed by Duncan Grant , 1944. The painting has been in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1971 .
- Desmond MacCarthy at Find a Grave
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy , stanford.edu, accessed June 15, 2013
- ↑ Sir Desmond MacCarthy , britannica.com, accessed June 16, 2013
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SURNAME | MacCarthy, Desmond |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacCarthy, Sir Charles Otto Desmond (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist, literary and theater critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1877 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth |
DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1952 |
Place of death | Cambridge |