Rintoul, M. C. Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Routledge, 1993.
Shane Leslie
Standard Name: Leslie, Shane
Used Form: Sir Shane Leslie
Used Form: Sir John Randolph, third Baron Leslie
Connections
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Anthologization | Viola Meynell | In December 1910, VM
and her siblings Francis
, Olivia
, and Monica
published a poetry anthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare
's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included... |
Fictionalization | Blanche Warre Cornish | Aldous Huxley
is said to have portrayed BWC
as Mrs Cravister in The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, 1920, while Shane Leslie
portrayed her as Mrs Thackeray in The Oppidan, 1922. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Francis Warre Warre-Cornish |
Friends, Associates | Margery Lawrence | Among ML
's close friends were the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
and the English war-poet Humbert Wolfe
(lover of Pamela Frankau
). Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale, 1950. 11 |
Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | |
Reception | Margery Lawrence | In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie
finds the influences of Shelley
, Yeats
, Tennyson
, Kipling
, Housman
, Chesterton
, and Fiona MacLeod
(pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to... |
Textual Production | Blanche Warre Cornish | In 1915 she edited and contributed to Memorials of Robert Hugh Benson (published at London, New York and Toronto, with a second edition the same year), whose title-page attributes it to B. W. Cornish... |
Textual Production | James Joyce | Preparing a defence against the allegations, Joyce's lawyer, Morris L. Ernst
, obtained hundreds of written opinions from educators, librarians, writers, clergy, and business people. Among those quoted in Ernst's court brief were Rebecca West |
Textual Production | Margery Lawrence | Her close friend the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
wrote a Foreword to the volume. In her Author's Note, ML
confesses as a dark secret the fact that all my life I... |
Timeline
1926
Soon after Chatto and Windus
published The Cantab by Shane Leslie
, the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church
, and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce
's...