Francis Birrell

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Francis Frederick Locker Birrell (born February 17, 1889 in London , † January 2, 1935 ) was a British journalist, editor, translator and literary critic who belonged to the so-called Bloomsbury Group and appeared as a friend of the authors James Elroy Flecker and David Garnett .

Life

Francis Birrell was born in 1889 to the politician and essayist Augustine Birrell and his second wife Lionel Tennyson and studied at the University of Cambridge , where he was a member of the elite Cambridge Apostles .

Between 1915 and 1919 he worked in France for the War Victims Relief Committee of the Society of Friends . During the 1920s, he and Garnett ran the Birrell and Garnett bookstore in London, 33 Gerrard Street, near the British Museum , where Frances Marshall , Garnett's sister-in-law, also worked. It was there that Bloomsbury Group members preferred to buy their books. Virginia Woolf had deliberately included Birrell in the circle, in which she specifically saw him as a partner who should promote the reviews of her works. Birrell subsequently appeared as editor of the Hogarth Miscellany of the Hogarth Press . During their teenage years, Birrell and Garnett had a brief homosexual affair that may have led Maynard Keynes to reject what he saw as an obscene duo. Woolf, however, decidedly against DH Lawrence's similarly directed homophobic attack against the entire literary community, especially Birrell, Grant and Lytton Strachey , especially since Birrell was terminally ill at the time.

Birrell also emerged as a translator of the works of Plato and Denis Diderot .

The University of Sussex owns Birrell's estate, which includes his correspondence with his father, the above-mentioned institution of the War Victims Relief Committee of the Society of Friends and a collection of around 140 photographs.

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Biographies

  • Gladstone . London 1933.

Treatises

  • Guide to the Bayeux tapestry . Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of textiles. London 1921.

Translations

  • Denis Diderot : Memoirs of a Nun . Routledge, London 1928. NA 1992.
  • Plato's symposium or supper . Newly translated by FRANCIS BIRRELL & SHANE LESLIE. The Nonesuch Press, 1924
  • Seneca Unnuuiqued : A Bilingual Edition of Aphra Behn's Translation of La Rochefoucauld's Maxims. Introduction and notes by ... Translated with an Introduction by Francis Birrell. London: Routledge & Sons, 1927.

Reviews

  • The Textile Exhibition at South Kensington . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 38, No. 217 (Apr. 1921), pp. 166-167, et al. 170-173.

literature

  • Stanford Patrick Rosenbaum: The Bloomsbury group: a collection of memoirs and commentary . University of Toronto Press, Toronto / Buffalo 1995, ISBN 978-0-8020-0690-5
  • Pamela Todd: The World of Bloomsbury. In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf and her friends . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1999. Paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-15335-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sydney A. Moseley: Who's who in broadcasting . London 1933
  2. ^ Obituary in The Times, Jan. 4, 1935, p. 14
  3. ↑ See. The estate of the University of Sussex and this group photo of a picnic the Bloomsbury Group.
  4. ↑ http://www.usp.br/jorusp/arquivo/2005/jusp723/pag1011.htm
  5. ↑ Priscilla Thouless: Modern Poetic Drama . Ayer Publishing 1977, p. 31.
  6. ↑ GND 803290-7
  7. ↑ Mina Kirstein Curtiss: Other people's letters: in search of Proust . Helen Marx Books, New York 2005, p. 14.
  8. ↑ http://spartacus-educational.com/WpartridgeF.htm
  9. ↑ http://mattoid.com/data/Obits/frances_partridge_obit.htm
  10. ^ John H. Willis: Leonard and Virginia Woolf as publishers: the Hogarth Press, 1917-41 . University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville 1992, p. 164.
  11. ↑ Quentin Bell: Bloomsbury Recalled . Columbia University Press, New York 1996, p. 221.
  12. ^ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Novel gazing: queer readings in fiction . Duke University Press, Durham, NC 1997, p. 418.
  13. ↑ http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_introductions/birrell.html
  14. ↑ http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_catalogues/birrell.html
personal data
SURNAME Birrell, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birrell, Francis Frederick Locker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, editor, translator and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1935