Gilbert Frankau

Standard Name: Frankau, Gilbert

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Family and Intimate relationships Pamela Frankau
Her father, Gilbert Frankau , novelist and womaniser, came from a gifted family full of writers. He was divorced from his wife, and (in G. B. Stern 's words) nonchalantly strolled out of [Pamela's] existence...
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Frankau
JF bore her eldest child, Gilbert Frankau . He later became a famous popular novelist, but was only one of Julia's immediate descendants to evince literary or theatrical talent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Literary responses Pamela Frankau
PF later called this my unpopular novel, though it was her own favourite.
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann.
95
Raymond, Diana, and Pamela Frankau. “Introduction”. The Winged Horse, Virago, p. v - xiii.
vii
Her father confessed himself puzzled by it.
Raymond, Diana, and Pamela Frankau. “Introduction”. The Winged Horse, Virago, p. v - xiii.
vii
Material Conditions of Writing Pamela Frankau
PF published the novel Tassell-Gentle, which she completed in a solitude enforced for working purposes by her father, Gilbert Frankau .
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
118
Publishing Pamela Frankau
She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare 's famously irresolute hero, and...
Residence Pamela Frankau
PF returned from the USA to live in London; she was just too late to see her father before he died.
Raymond, Diana, and Pamela Frankau. “Introduction”. The Winged Horse, Virago, p. v - xiii.
viii
Textual Features Julia Frankau
Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart
Textual Production Julia Frankau
Other titles were A Coquette in Crape, 1907, An Incomplete Eton ian, 1909,
JF 's son Gilbert attended Eton.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Full Swing,1914, and The Story Behind the Verdict, 1915.
Textual Production Julia Frankau
Two years after JF 's death her son Gilbert Frankau collected her hitherto unpublished stories in Mothers and Children, with a preface by himself.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
882 (12 December 1918): 627
Textual Production Julia Frankau
JF 's son Gilbert dramatized this novel in 1920 as a star vehicle for his second wife, Aimée de Burgh , but the result was not a stage success. The novel was also twice filmed...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pamela Frankau
In this book PF offers her impressions of celebrities
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
119
met through her great-aunt Eliza Aria . Place is important too, like her vivid yet dreamlike description of Sligachan on the Isle of Skye...

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