Percy Lubbock
Percy Lubbock,
Life
Percy Lubbock was the son of the merchant banker Frederic Lubbock (1844–1927) and his wife Catherine (1848–1934), daughter of John Gurney (1809–1856) of Earlham Hall, Norfolk, who was a member of an influential Norwich banking family. Earlham, Percy Lubbock's memoir of childhood summer holidays spent at his maternal grandfather's house, was to win him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922. His father, Frederic Lubbock, was also a banker, a son of Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, and a younger brother of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, brought up at Emmetts near Ide Hill in Kent.[1] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.[2] He later became a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Pepys Librarian.
Lubbock set up home at Gli Scafari, a villa on the
Writing
Lubbock reviewed anonymously in the columns of
Marriage
Lubbock was homosexual,
The marriage caused a division between Lubbock and Edith Wharton, who disapproved of Sybil.[9][10]
Henry James
Lubbock was a good friend of Henry James in James's later life, and became a follower in literary terms, and his editor after his death. Later scholars have questioned editorial decisions he made in publishing the James letters in 1920, at a time when many of those concerned were still alive. Mark Schorer, in his introduction to a reprint of Lubbock's The Craft of Fiction, described him as "more Jamesian than James".
Works
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters (1906)
- Samuel Pepys (1909)
- A Book of English Prose, Part II (1913)
- The Letters of Henry James (1920) editor, two volumes[11]
- George Calderon - a Sketch from Memory (1921)
- Earlham (1921) memoirs of Earlham Hall
- The Craft of Fiction (1921). ISBN 978-1599866086 [12]
- Roman Pictures (1923)
- The Region Cloud (1925)
- The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson(1927)
- Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory (1928)
- Shades of Eton (1929) memoirs
- Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947)
- Percy Lubbock Reader (1957) editor Marjory Gane Harkness
Notes
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 29 April 2011
- ^ "Lubbock, Percy (LBK898P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Hugh Honour". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ^ José Ángel García Landa, Theory of reflexive fiction Archived 5 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Universidad de Zaragoza
- ^ P. 24.
- ^ Modernism Lab/Yale University.
- ^ Michael Anesko, Monopolizing The Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship, Stanford University Press, 2012, pp. 81–82.
- ^ Darryl Lundy. "Family connections at www.thepeerage.com". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- ISBN 9781349372515, p. 78.
- JSTOR 41212101.
- ^ Wharton, Edith (July 1920). "Review of The Letters of Henry James selected and edited by Percy Lubbock". The Quarterly Review. 234: 188–202.
- ^ The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Craft of Fiction, by Percy Lubbock