Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy : A Biography - Hardcover

Cecil, Hugh; Cecil, Mirabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575036222 ISBN 13: 9780575036222

Publisher: Victor Gollancz, 1991

Synopsis

A biography of two figures at the centre of 20th century English literary life for nearly 50 years. Desmond MacCarthy was famous as drama and literary critic of "New Statesman" and "The Sunday Times" and his friends included Henry James and Bertrand Russell. Hugh Cecil is MacCarthy's grandson.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) literary critic for the London Sunday Times in the 1930s and '40s, married Molly Warre-Cornish, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, in 1906. Historian Hugh Cecil, their grandson, and his wife, Mirabel ( Heroines in Love ), propose the MacCarthys as literary lovers, although the romance of that portrait is not borne out in this biography. An account of Desmond's career would have sustained considerable interest in itself. In an era when theater was as important as television is today, he was an influential drama critic. The Cecils' account scants this material in favor of a chronicle of who was related to and/or slept with whom in Merry Olde England between the world wars.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Victor Gollancz
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0575036222
• ISBN 13: 9780575036222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320