Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo: A biography - Hardcover
- PublisherHamilton
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 024189512X
- ISBN 13 9780241895122
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages332
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Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780241895122
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780241895122
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Book Description Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:024189512X. Seller Inventory # 9883052
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FREDERICK ROLFE : BARON CORVO
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some damp stains, mostly on the inside but is still in near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Frederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced /ro?f/ ROHF[1]), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe[2] (22 July 1860 ? 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886 and was confirmed by Cardinal Manning. With his conversion came a strongly-felt vocation to the priesthood, which persisted throughout his life despite being constantly frustrated and never realised. In 1887 he was sponsored to train at St Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham and in 1889 was a student at the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, but was thrown out by both due to his inability to concentrate on priestly studies and his erratic behaviour. At this stage he entered the circle of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, who, he claimed, adopted him as a grandson and gave him the use of the title of "Baron Corvo". This became his best-known pseudonym; he also called himself "Frank English", "Frederick Austin" and "A. Crab Maid", among others. More often he abbreviated his own name to "Fr. Rolfe" (an ambiguous usage, suggesting he was the priest he had hoped to become). Rolfe was entirely comfortable with his homosexuality and associated and corresponded with a number of other homosexual Englishmen. Early in his life he wrote a fair amount of idealistic but mawkish poetry about boy martyrs and the like. These and his Toto stories contain pederastic elements, but the young male pupils he was teaching at the time unanimously recalled in later life that there had never been any hint of impropriety in his relations with them. As he himself matured, Rolfe's settled sexual preference was for late adolescents. Ref A4 5. Seller Inventory # 033310
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Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo, A Biography
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Book Description Hardback. Hardback. 332pp. A life of Frederick William Rolfe, 'Baron Corvo' artist, photographer, novelist and short story writer, eccentric, contributor to the Yellow Book. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat. dust jacket is a little dust marked and slightly edge worn. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket Very good copy in good+ dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 22967
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Book Description Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The life of Frederick Austin, Fr. ROlfe, A.W. Riter, Al Siddik, Franz Wilhem V. Bracht, Frederick of Venice, Uriele de Ricordi, more often than not Baron Corvo, and all Frederick Rolfe. Fine in dustwrapper. book. Seller Inventory # 47797
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