Clive Murphy
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Clive Murphy (28 November 1935 – 17 June 2021) was a British author and
oral histories and turned them into memoirs.[1]
Biography
Murphy was born in
oral histories and turned them into memoirs by voices that otherwise would not be heard.[1] The memoirs are based on interviews he taped with individuals who were residents of Spitalfields in the 1960s,[3] with Murphy writing them in the 1970s.[4]
After 1999 Murphy published ten books of gay, often comic, ribaldry. The tenth, To Hell with Thomas Bowdler, Mrs Grundy and Mary Whitehouse!, was published in 2015.[5]
Murphy died in June 2021, aged 85.[6]
Books
Novels
- Summer Overtures (1972)
- Freedom for Mr. Mildew & Nigel Someone (1975)
Ordinary Lives series
All the books in this series are edited by Clive Murphy and published under the subjects' own names.
- The Good Deeds of a Good Woman by Beatrice Ali (1976)
- Born to Sing by Alexander Hartog (1978)
- Four Acres and a Donkey: the memoirs of a lavatory attendant by S. A. B. Rogers (1979)
- Love, dears! The memoirs of a former chorus girl by Marjorie Graham (Dobson Books, 1980)[7](new edition 2013 by Macmillan as Up in Lights)
- Oiky: the memoirs of a pigman by Len Mills (1984)
- At the Dog in Dulwich: recollections of a poet by Patricia Doubell (1986)
- A Stranger in Gloucester: recollections of an Austrian in England by Mrs Falge-Wahl (1986)
- A Funny Old Quist: the memoirs of a gamekeeper by Evan Rogers (1986; new edition by Eland in 2009)
- Dodo by Dodo Lees (1993)
- Endsleigh: memoirs of a river riverkeeper by Horace Adams (1994)
Ribald Rhymes
- Sour Grapes (1999)
- Cave canem (2002)
- Orts and all: more ribald rhymes and gay doggery (2003)
- Lust and malice: ribald rhymes and other verse (2005)
- Sodomy is not enough! Ribald rhymes and other verse (2008)
- Heavenly blue: rhymes more ribald (2009)
- Gay abandon (2011)
- On Pleasure Bent (2013)
- Lock up your sons! (2014)
- To Hell with Thomas Bowdler, Mrs Grundy and Mary Whitehouse! (2015)
References
- ^ a b "Clive Murphy, Oral Historian & Writer of Ribald Rhymes". spitalfieldslife.com. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "A life "up in lights"". East London News. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "Words of the Year – Spitalfields Life". STACK magazines. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ "Born to Sing? Alex Hartog". Eastlondonhistory.com. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ "Murphy, Clive". Bishopsgate Institute. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (25 June 2021). "Clive Murphy, writer whose 'Ordinary Lives' series gave voice to pigmen, mantle-pressers and lavatory attendants – obituary" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Clive Murphy, Up In Lights". Spitalfields Life. 9 May 2013.
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