Ernest Raymond
Ernest Raymond | |
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Born | 31 December 1888 Argentières, France |
Died | 14 May 1974 Hampstead, England | (aged 85)
Occupation | Novelist |
Education | |
Notable works |
Ernest Raymond
Early life
Ernest Raymond was born in Argentières, France, the illegitimate son of a British Army officer. He lived with his abusive aunt as a child. Her sister, his undisclosed mother, lived nearby with her family.[2]
Raymond was educated at St Paul's School, London and at Chichester Theological College, before moving on to Durham University to read for a degree in Theology.[3] At Durham he did not join any of the colleges and studied as an 'unattached' member. He was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1914 after graduating from Durham with first-class honours.[3] Attending the same September graduation ceremony was the future conductor Malcolm Sargent, there to receive his Music degree.[4]
With the outbreak of the
Career
He resigned
He wrote many books, including the novels Damascus Gate (1923),
Many of his 1930s–1940s novels included clerics, the characters' religious life, and spiritual philosophy. The Autobiography of David (1946) was "as told to" him by the pseudonymous "David" who was an
We, the Accused was made into a well-received TV drama of the same title starring Ian Holm, Angela Down and Elizabeth Spriggs in 1980.[7]
Assessment
George Orwell in 1945 praised Raymond as a "natural novelist" who could portray convincingly the lives of ordinary people. In particular, he admired We, the Accused for its emotional power, while criticising the clumsy and long-winded way in which it is written.[8]
Personal life
Raymond was married twice, firstly in Brighton, 1922 to Zoe Irene Maude Doucett (1897–1964) of Southampton (two children), secondly in Hampstead, 1941 to Diana Joan Young (1916–2009) of Woolwich (one child, Peter John Francis Raymond).[2] From 1941 until his death Raymond resided at 22 The Pryors in Hampstead.[9]
Bibliography
- Tell England: A Study in a Generation (1922)
- Rossenal (1922)
- Damascus Gate (1923)
- The Shout of the King (1924)
- Wanderlight (1924)
- The Fulfilment of Daphne Bruno (1926)
- Morris in the Dance (1927)
- The Old Tree Blossomed (1928)
- Through Literature to Life; An Enthusiasm and an Anthology (1928)
- A Family That Was (1930)
- The Jesting Army (1931)
- Mary Leith (1932)
- Child of Norman's End (1934)
- We, the Accused (1935)
- Don John's Mountain Home (1936)
- The Marsh (1937)
- In the Steps of St. Francis (1939)
- The Miracle of Brean (1939)
- A Song of the Tide (1940)
- The Last to Rest (1941)
- Was there Love Once (1942)
- The Corporal of the Guard (1944)
- For Them That Trespass (1944)
- Back to Humanity (1945)
- The Autobiography of David (1946)
- Five Sons of Le Faber (1946)
- Kilburn Tale (1947)
- In the Steps of the Brontes (1948)
- Gentle Greaves (1949)
- Witness of Canon Welcome (1950)
- A Chorus Ending (1951)
- Chalice and the Sword (1952)
- Two Gentlemen of Rome: The Story of Keats And Shelley (1952)
- The Bronte Legend: Its Cause And Treatment (1953)
- The Nameless Places (1954)
- To the Wood No More (1954)
- Lord of Wensley (1956)
- The Old June Weather (1957)
- The City and the Dream (1958)
- The Quiet Shore (1958)
- The Visit of Brother Ives (1960)
- Mr Olim (1961)
- Paris, City of Enchantment (1961)
- The Chatelaine (1962)
- One of Our Brethren (1963)
- Late in the Day (1964)
- Tree of Heaven (1965)
- The Mountain Farm (1966)
- Bethany Road (1967)
- A Song of the Tide (1967)
- The Story of My Days: An Autobiography 1888–1922 (1968)
- Please You, Draw Near: Autobiography 1922–1968 (1969)
- Gentle Greaves (1970)
- Good Morning, Good People: an autobiography – past and present (1970)
- A Georgian Love Story (1971)
- Our Late Member (1972)
- Miryam's Guest House (1973)
- Under Wedgery Down (1974)
References
- ^ a b Peter Preston (March 2011). "Past and Present in Ernest Raymond's 'London Gallery'". Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London. 9 (1). Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-47661-841-8
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56909. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Convocation". Durham University Journal. 21: 221. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ^ Onions, John (1990). "Minor Works". English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 53.
- ISBN 978-0-58235-307-7
- IMDb
- ^ "Good Bad Books" (2 November 1945) Tribune
- ^ "Ernest Raymond". London Remembers. Retrieved 15 August 2019.