Shane Leslie

Sir John Randolph "Shane" Leslie, 3rd Baronet (born September 24, 1885 in Glaslough , County Monaghan , Ireland ; † August 14, 1971 ibid) was an Irish writer , who was known mainly through his 1917 under the title The End of a Chapter study on the generation before the First World War became known.

Life

Leslie, son of a Protestant Irish family, grandson of the painter and Conservative MP Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet , studied at the University of Paris and at the King's College of the University of Cambridge . During his studies he took a trip to Russia in 1907 , where he met Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy . After his return he converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1908 .

In the elections to the British House of Commons in 1910, he ran for the Irish Nationalist Party for a seat in the House of Commons without success.

In 1916 he wrote The End of a Chapter, a successful portrayal of the generation before the First World War . The subsequent book The Celt and the World attempted to inspire the Anglophobic Irish-born residents of the USA for the Allied cause and influenced the young writer F. Scott Fitzgerald . However, the work fell into disuse and was never published in the UK.

Leslie also wrote some impressive novels based on his own childhood and adolescence, as well as poetry and short stories . He also examined the relationship and the informal marriage between King George IV and Maria Anne Fitzherbert .

Upon the death of his father, MP Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, he inherited his title of Baronet , of Glaslough in the County of Monaghan , in 1944 .

Publications

• The End of a Chapter , 1916
• Verses in peace and war , 1916
• Henry Edward Manning , 1921
• Doomsland , 1923
• Mark Sykes , 1923
• The Cantab , 1926
• George the Fourth , 1926
• The Anglo-Catholic , 1929
• Jutland , 1930
• Memoir of John Edward Courtenay Bodley , 1930
• Studies in sublime failure , 1932
• The Oppidan , 1933
• The Oxford Movement 1833 to 1933 , 1933
• The Passing Chapter , 1934
• Men were different , 1937
• Mrs. Fitzherbert , 1939
• The letters of Mrs Fitzherbert and connected papers , 1940
• Poems from the North , 1945
• The Irish tangle for English readers , 1946
• Salutation to Five , 1951
• Lord Mulroy's Ghost , 1954
• Saint Patrick's Purgatory , 1961
• Shane Leslie's ghost book , 1964

posthumously

• The cuckoo clock and other poems , 1987

Background literature

• Laura Balomiri: Facts and fictions of Anglo Irishness: the novels of Shane Leslie against the background of his essayistic work , Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2001, ISBN 3-631-39164-1

Web links and sources

• Literature by and about Shane Leslie in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications ( Open Library )
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, pp. 918, ISBN 0-550-10051-2