Philip Lindsay

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Philip Lindsay (born April 30, 1906 in Sydney , † January 4, 1958 in Hastings , East Sussex , England ) was an Australian novelist.

life and work

Philip Lindsay was the third son of the sculptor and writer Norman Lindsay and a younger brother of the author Jack Lindsay . He graduated from the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane and was particularly interested in history and literature. At the age of 14 he returned to his family in Sydney and also attended the Sydney Art School, but showed no inclination for art. With the support of his father, he began a career as a writer and worked as a journalist in Sydney. He then went to England, arrived in London in September 1929, and in the same year published some of his poems and sketches in London Aphrodite .

Now Lindsay stayed permanently in England and wrote mainly historical-biographical novels. In his early novels Morgan in Jamaica (1930) and Panama is Burning (1932) he expressed an interest in the subject of piracy . Then he turned to medieval English history. In One Dagger for Two (1932) he treated Christopher Marlowe , an English playwright of the Elizabethan era , who died in a pub dispute; but according to Lindsay's account, it wasn't just a dispute about the bill, but about a woman. The success of his 1933 novel Here Comes the King (1933) about Catherine Howard , the fifth wife of Henry VIII , earned him the post of artistic director for Alexander Corda's film The Private Life of Henry VIII, made in the same year .

In The Little Wench (1935) Lindsay dealt with the legend of the love affair between Queen Guinevere and the knight Lancelot , in The Devil and King John (1943) with Johann Ohneland , who appears here as a sympathizer of the "old religion" of witches , whereupon his conflicts with the Catholic Church can be traced back. The author portrayed King John more benevolently than many other works and also showed in his biographical novels about Richard III. ( The Tragic King ) and Henry V have a lot of sympathy for these English kings.

Lindsay went his first marriage to Jeanne Ellis, born on April 4, 1933. Bellon, later divorced her and married Isobel Beatrice Spurgeon, b. Day with whom he lived in Sussex. On January 4, 1958, Lindsay, who had published his autobiography I'd Live the Same Life Over in 1941 , died of a respiratory disease in Hastings at the age of 51 . His daughter from his first marriage, Cressida Lindsay, was also a novelist.

Other works (selection)

  • London Bridge is Falling , novel, 1934
  • The Duke is Served , Roman, 1936
  • Bride for a Buccaneer , novel, 1938
  • The Nutbrown Maid , novel, 1939
  • The Gentle Knight , novel, 1942
  • She Rides in Triumph , novel, 1944
  • Sir Rusty Sword , novel, 1946
  • Whiter Shall I Wander , Novel, 1947
  • Heart of a King , novel, 1948
  • There Is No Escape , novel, 1949
  • Don Bradman , biography, 1951
  • A Piece for Candlelight , Roman, 1953
  • The Counterfeit Lady , Roman, 1954

literature