Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...
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Richard Francis Burton
After his death in 1890, his devout wife
destroyed many of his papers, including his almost completed but still unpublished translation of The Perfumed Garden (done this time directly from the Arabic and to be...
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Richard Francis Burton
Isabel, Lady Burton
's biography of her husband, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, presented only some aspects of the flamboyant explorer, folklorist, and eroticist, while carefully concealing others.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.