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   Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Ronald-FirbankRonald Firbank | Modernist Fiction, Aesthete, Satire | Britannica

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   Ronald Firbank (born January 17, 1886, London, England—died May 21, 1926, Rome, Italy) was an English novelist who was a literary innovator of some importance. Greatly indebted to the literature of the 1890s, his is a peculiarly fantastic and perverse, idiosyncratic humour.

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4. www.spectator.co.uk › article › the-overlookedThe overlooked genius of Ronald Firbank | The Spectator

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   Firbank wrote seven radically original novels and one full-length play. His first novel, Vainglory, published in 1915, is the first true modernist novel in English, and the most original...

5. www.goodreads.com › author › showRonald Firbank (Author of The Flower Beneath the Foot)

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   British novelist Ronald Firbank was born in London, the son of society lady Harriet Jane Garrett and MP Sir Thomas Firbank. He went to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907.

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   • Death Date: May 21, 1926

   • Birth Date: January 17, 1886

6. www.nytimes.com › 1973/07/22 › archivesThe fixer of modern camp - The New York Times

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   Jul 22, 1973 · Ronald Firbank remains one of the most steadfastly unread writers of his generation. Forced to pay for the publication of his own novels during his lifetime, Firbank has not been compensated...

7. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Ronald Firbank (Author of The Flower Beneath the Foot)

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   Ronald Firbank has 47 books on Goodreads with 3367 ratings. Ronald Firbank’s most popular book is The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Earl...

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   Who is Ronald Firbank?

   • Ronald Firbank (born January 17, 1886, London, England–died May 21, 1926, Rome, Italy) was an English novelist who was greatly indebted to the literature of the 1890s and a literary innovator of some importance. His is a peculiarly fantastic and perverse, idiosyncratic humour.

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   How did Ronald Firbank die?

   • He converted to Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge, without completing a degree. Living off his inheritance he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. Ronald Firbank died of lung disease while in Rome. saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. saving…

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   Who wrote Ronald Firbank?

   • Introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz, privately printed (poem, 1966) Ronald Firbank Far Away ... Note by Miriam J. Benkovitz (1966) [written 1904]. Ronald Firbank - When Widows Love & A Tragedy in Green ... Introduced by Edward Martin Potoker (1980). Complete Short Stories. Edited with an afterword by Steven Moore (1990) Complete Plays.

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   Did Ronald Firbank write the New Rythum?

   • Ronald Firbank left among his manuscripts the first few chapters of a novel set in New York, The New Rythum (sic). These were published in 1962 after a sale of many of his manuscripts and letters. Playwright Joe Orton was an admirer of Firbank's works, calling him "the only impressionist in the English novel" and "the source." [ 8]

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9. www.oxfordreference.com › display › 10Ronald Firbank - Oxford Reference

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   Dandy, aesthete, exotic, homosexual, and habitué of the Café Royal, Firbank succeeded in creating a distinctive ‘Firbankian’ style, in both life and works. His use of dialogue, his oblique narration, his highly coloured fantasies, and his intense concentration of language and image are now seen as truly innovative, and some writers have ...