biography
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Kingsmill, Hugh
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pen name of Hugh Kingsmill Lunn
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1949)
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| biography:
| British writer, critic, and anthologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford and Dublin, and became a writer, publishing his first novel, The Will to Love, in 1919. He wrote several irreverent biographies, and the satirical fantasy The Return of William Shakespeare (1929). His anthologies include Invective and Abuse (1929), Johnson Without Boswell (1940), and The Worst of Love (1931), while with Hesketh Pearson he established a genre of conversational literary journeys through such works as Skye High (1937), This Blessed Plot (1942), and Talking of Dick Whittington (1947). |
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