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Simon Heffer, ed., Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918-1938 (London: Hutchinson, 2021), 1024, first of three volumes, Amazon $48.55. The best diarists are flawed individuals who exist on the fringe of events and are natural observers and acerbic wits. Snobbery helps too.
Mar 3, 2021 · Henry “Chips” Channon: the Diaries, Volume 1, 1918-38. Edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 1,024pp, £35. [see also: The art of political writing] Humanity vs the virus. The interwar years are not, broadly speaking, remembered fondly. Yet the parallels with modern times are too obvious to avoid.
Oct 24, 2021 · The death of Henry Channon at the age of just 51 is the latest tragedy to befall his family after his older sister Olivia Channon died from a drugs overdose at Oxford University in 1986.
Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon. Socialite Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon (1897-1958) was a Chicago-born, Anglophile Conservative MP most famed for his caustic diaries kept daily between 1918 and his death. As he said of his lifetime of sharp observations, ‘what is more dull than a discreet diary?
Jan 1, 1996 · Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries,first published in 1967,are now considered a modern classic.The years covered in this volume,1934-53,recall a vanished world where Channon's priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties,balls,country-house weekends and endless gossip.His position as a MP enabled him to chronicle,famously,the ...
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Aug 28, 2021 · Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, born and raised in Chicago, became the greatest British diarist of the 20th century; called the Pepys of the interwar years he rather more resembled Wodehouse’s Galahad Threepwood or Maugham’s Elliott Templeton. Rejecting his country of origin the colossally snobbish hobnobber fashioned for himself a brand new ...
Sep 4, 2022 · The final volume of Sir Henry Channon’s famous diaries covers the breakdown of his marriage, affairs with men and the final years of war. They are the most scandalous diaries in modern British ...
