Desmond MacCarthy

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Desmond MacCarthy (1912)

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 .

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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.

MacCarthys tombstone

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy , stanford.edu, accessed June 15, 2013
  2. ↑ Sir Desmond MacCarthy , britannica.com, accessed June 16, 2013
personal data
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