Frederick Rolfe

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Frederick Rolfe (1880s)

Frederick William Rolfe (born July 22, 1860 in Cheapside , London , † October 25, 1913 in Venice ) was a British writer and photographer , also known under the pseudonym Baron Corvo .

Life

Rolfe trained as a teacher and briefly taught at The King's School in Grantham . In 1886 he converted to the Roman Catholic faith and began studying to be a Roman Catholic priest at Scots College in Rome , which he dropped out. in the following decades he worked as a freelance writer and was supported financially by Caroline Shirley, Duchess Sforza Cesarini. In addition to his writing work, Rolfe worked as a photographer. Rolfe lived in the United Kingdom and Venice, where he also died in October 1913.

Works (selection)

  • Tarcissus the Boy Martyr of Rome in the Diocletian Persecution [around 1880]
  • Stories Toto Told Me (John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1898)
  • The Attack on St Winefrede's Well (Hochheimer, Holywell, 1898; only two copies available)
  • In His Own Image (John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1901.2, Impression 1924)
  • Chronicles of the House of Borgia (Grant Richards, London: EP Dutton, New York, 1901)
  • Nicholas Crabbe (1903-4, published posthumously 1958)
  • Hadrian the Seventh (Chatto & Windus, London, 1904)
  • Don Tarquinio (Chatto & Windus, London, 1905)
  • Don Renato (1907-8, printed in 1909 but not published, published posthumously Chatto & Windus, London, 1963)
  • Hubert's Arthur (1909–11, published posthumously 1935)
  • The Weird of the Wanderer (1912)
  • The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (1909, published by Cassell, London, 1934)
  • The Bull against the Enemy of the Anglican race (privately printed, London, 1929)
  • Three Tales of Venice (The Corvine Press, 1950)
  • Letters to Grant Richards (The Peacocks Press, 1952)
  • The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda (Nicholas Vane, London, 1957)
  • A Letter from Baron Corvo to John Lane (The Peacocks Press, 1958)
  • Letters to CHC Pirie-Gordon (Nicholas Vane, London, 1959)
  • A Letter to Father Beauclerk (The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1960)
  • Letters to Leonard Moore (Nicholas Vane, London, 1960)
  • The Letters of Baron Corvo to Kenneth Grahame (The Peacocks Press, 1962)
  • Letters to RM Dawkins (Nicholas Vane, London, 1962)
  • The Architecture of Aberdeen (privately printed, Detroit, 1963)
  • Without Prejudice. One Hundred Letters From Frederick William Rolfe to John Lane (privately printed for Allen Lane, London, 1963)
  • A Letter to Claud (University of Iowa School of Journalism, Iowa City, 1964)
  • The Venice Letters A Selection (Cecil Woolf, London, 1966)
  • The Armed Hands (Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)
  • Collected Poems (Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)
  • The Venice Letters (Cecil Woolf, London, 1974)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telegraph: Donald Weeks, February 20, 2004
  2. ↑ Guardian: The 100 best novels: No 37 - Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
personal data
SURNAME Rolfe, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rolfe, Frederick William; Baron Corvo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheapside , London
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1913
Place of death Venice , Italy