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The Independent Summer School: How I learnt to love...ENGLISH - Michael Holroyd
2001
Overview
I came across [Hugh Kingsmill]'s biography of Frank Harris by accident. It was a masterpiece of irony, and made me laugh in a way I never had before. I laughed at the comedy of life I was engaged in, and found a new humour. I decided to write a book about Kingsmill, which appeared in 1964. I may say now that it was an immensely bad book. It was a labour of infatuation and I learnt a bit like a skater - falling down and picking myself up. Kingsmill was a follower of [Lytton Strachey], who became the subject of my next biography. I came along at a very fortunate time with that. Before then, homosexuality was not treated frankly or with openness. I wasn't doing a brave expose, I was just dealing with it, but for once I was in tune with the spirit of the time. I wanted the things he did to be as important on paper as they were in his own life.
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Independent Digital News & Media
