Philip Mairet
Philip Mairet (French:
Early life
He was born in
Mairet studied at the
Marriage, Mitrinović and Ditchling
Mairet married in 1913, and with his wife Ethel moved away from Chipping Campden. They lived in a cottage at
At the end of 1915 Mairet joined the
Mairet and his wife moved to
From 1921 to 1924 Mairet worked as an actor at the
The New English Weekly circle
Mairet began going to the editorial meetings of
During the 1930s, there were changes in Mairet's life. His marriage broke down; he threw off the influence of Mitrinović; and he changed the spelling of his first name from Philippe to Philip.
Mairet, in 1934 the literary editor of the New English Weekly, emerged as its editor as a compromise candidate. One group of Social Credit advocates wanted to exclude another group, of supporters of Mitrinović. Mairet was identified more with a third force, the Chandos Group. They took their name from the Chandos Restaurant in St Martin's Lane, where they met.[25]
The Chandos Group overlapped the Mitrinović group: there had been a shared interest in the journal Purpose; and the theories of Adler were also a common factor.[26] W. Travers Symons introduced Mairet to T. S. Eliot, who was holding the ring.[27] In practical terms the Chandos Group were already deeply involved in producing the New English Weekly, and were sympathetic to Social Credit.[28]
Associations
The Chandos group was founded by Mitrinović, meeting for the first time on the last day of the
Mairet belonged to other small societies and discussion groups of the period before
Mairet was an early supporter of George Orwell, who wrote to the New English Weekly in May 1932, and was given a book by Karl Adam to review.[33] He wrote in positive and comprehending terms about Homage to Catalonia and Orwell's approach.[34] He was a friend and long-time correspondent of T. S. Eliot, who dedicated his Notes towards the Definition of Culture to him.[35] The work's title harked back to a seminar series Eliot and Mairet had run in the winter 1943/4, at St Anne's House, under the title "Towards the Definition of a Culture". The House was attached to St Anne's Church, Soho, bombed out in two air raids in autumn 1940.[36][37]
In December 1938 the magazine New Pioneer was launched, a
For Walter Moberly's Christian Frontier Council, Mairet edited The Frontier (1951).[40] Also for the Christian Frontier Council, he organised a symposium Christianity and Psychiatry, and edited its proceedings as Christian Essays in Psychiatry (1956).[16][41]
Brian Harrison recorded an oral history interview with Mairet, in May 1974, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.[42] Mairet talks about his introduction to women's suffrage, the WSPU and Maude Royden.
Works
Mairet did the drawings for Ashbee's re-design of the Norman Chapel House in Broad Campden, and the 1907 commission for Thomas Shaw-Hellier's Villa San Giorgio in Taormina.[43][44] Fiona MacCarthy, the biographer of the architect, judges it "the most impressive of Ashbee's remaining buildings";[45] it survives as the Hotel Ashbee. Mairet also illustrated Ashbee's Conradin: A Philosophical Ballad (1908).
Biography
- A. R. Orage: a memoir (1936)
- Pioneer of Sociology: The Life and Letters of Patrick Geddes (1957)
- John Middleton Murry (1958)
Essays and pamphlets
- An essay on crafts & obedience (1918), with Hilary Pepler
- The Idea Behind Craftsmanship (1928)[46]
- Aristocracy and the Meaning of Class Rule – An Essay upon Aristocracy Past and Future (1931)
- The Frontier (1951)
- Christian Essays in Psychiatry (1956) editor
Social Credit
- The Douglas Manual: Being a Recension of Passages from the Works of Major C. H. Douglas, Outlining Social Credit (Stanley Nott, 1934) editor[47]
Alfred Adler
- ABC of Adler's psychology (1928)
- Alfred Adler Problems of Neurosis (1929) editor, case histories
Translations
Mairet's numerous translations to English included L'existentialisme est un humanisme by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Calvin by François Wendel (1905–1972).[36]
Family
The woman Mairet married,
Notes
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- ^ Phillip Conford, The Origins of the Organic Movement (2001), chapter Philip Mairet and the New English Weekly.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62992. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Eric Homberger, Ezra Pound: The Critical Heritage (1997), p. 332.
- ISBN 978-0-571-32021-9.
- ^ (PDF) Archived 16 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, p. 3.
- ^ "Review: Page". Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
- ^ Stephen, Walter (2020), On the Trail of Patrick Geddes, Luath Press Ltd., p. 95
- ^ Mairet, Philip (July–November 2023). "Commentary and Primary Text: Extracts from "A Civilization of Technics" (1945),". The Journal of Modern Craft. 16 (2/3): 189–99.
- ISBN 978-0-85635-326-0.
- ISBN 978-0-19-539875-5.
- ISBN 978-0-571-26582-4.
- ISBN 978-0-85635-326-0.
- ^ Luisa Passerini, Europe in love, love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain Between the Wars (1999), p. 773.
- ^ Simon Blaxland-de Lange, Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: a Biography (2006), pp. 144-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-571-31637-3.
- ^ "And after the war, Edwin Muir, Herbert Read, Michael Arlen, Denis Saurat, Janko Lavrin, and Philip Mairet, to mention a few, attended regularly." (PDF), p. 43.
- ISBN 978-0-8112-0681-5.
- ISBN 0313243360.
- ISBN 978-1-58456-197-2.
- ISBN 978-0-8112-0681-5.
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- ISBN 978-0-8264-5814-8.
- ISBN 978-0-670-86999-2.
- ISBN 978-1-4982-9779-0.
- ^ Mathew Thomson, Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-century Britain (2006), p. 91.
- ^ a b Jason Harding, The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain (2002), pp. 191-2.
- ^ Peter Barberis, John McHugh, and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations (2000), p. 80.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-134-75583-7.
- ^ Marjorie Reeves (editor), Christian Thinking and Social Order: Conviction Politics from the 1930s to the Present Day (1999), p, 25.
- ISBN 978-0-567-08690-7.
- ISBN 978-1-5275-3714-9.
- ISBN 978-0-436-20542-2.
- ISBN 978-0-349-11551-1.
- ^ Alzina Stone Dale, T. S. Eliot: The Philosopher Poet (2004), p. 170.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-571-09692-3.
- ^ Sites (www.communitysites.co.uk), Community. "24 September 1940, St Anne's, Soho, Bomb Incidents, West End at War". www.westendatwar.org.uk.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-5024-4.
- ^ Julie V. Gottlieb, Thomas P. Linehan, The Culture of Fascism: Visions of the Far Right in Britain (2004), p. 187.
- ^ (PDF) Archived 20 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine, p. 21.
- ^ Mairet, Philip (1956). Christian Essays in Psychiatry. Philosophical Library.
- ^ London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ "RIBA archive drawings". Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ University of Bradford Archive Reference: GB 0532 MAI. Letter from Mairet to Tom Heron dated 12 June 1971. "A highlight of his holiday was a visit to the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina, for which he executed the perspective drawings when working in C.R. Ashbee's office at Chipping Campden."
- ^ MacCarthy, Fiona.The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds. University of California Press, 1981. Chapter 7, "The death of Conradin"
- ^ Mairet, Philip (1928). The Idea Behind Craftsmanship. New Handworkers' Gallery.
- ISBN 978-1-134-75583-7.
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990109/ai_n9656407 [dead link]
- ^ "Pioneers and their practice - Visual Arts Data Service: The online resource for visual arts". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
- ISBN 978-0-415-91105-4.