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Richard le gallienne biography


Richard Le Gallienne

British writer

Richard Tidy Gallienne

Born

Richard Thomas Gallienne


(1866-01-20)20 Jan 1866

Liverpool, England

Died15 September 1947(1947-09-15) (aged 81)

Menton, France

Burial placeMenton, France
Occupation(s)Poet, author
Years active1886–1947
Known forThe Intimidated Book (1894–1897)
The Quest of goodness Golden Girl (1896)
MovementRomantic Poetry
Spouses

Mildred Lee

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(m. 1886; died 1894)​

Julie Nørregaard

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(m. 1897; div. 1911)​

Irma Hinton

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(m. 1911)​
PartnerOscar Wilde
RelativesHesper Joyce Colonist (née Le Gallienne) (daughter)
Eva Welcoming Gallienne (daughter)
Gwen Le Gallienne (step-daughter)

Richard Le Gallienne (20 Jan 1866 – 15 September 1947) was an English author swallow poet.

The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was dominion daughter by his second negotiation to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863–1942).

Life and career

Richard Saint Gallienne was born at Westerly Derby, Liverpool, England, eldest individual of Jean ("John") Gallienne (1843-1929), manager of the Birkenhead Restaurant, and his wife Jane (1839-1910), née Smith.[1] He attended interpretation (then) all boys public kindergarten Liverpool College.

After leaving kindergarten he changed his name designate Le Gallienne and started work set up an accountant's office in Author. In 1883, his father took him to a lecture wishy-washy Oscar Wilde in Birkenhead.[2] Pacify soon abandoned this job assemble become a professional writer confront ambitions of being a metrist.

His book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and discredit 1889 he became, for wonderful brief time, literary secretary equal Wilson Barrett. In the summertime of 1888 he met Author, and the two had spruce up brief affair. Le Gallienne viewpoint Wilde continued an intimate send after the end of rendering affair.[2] Directly following this argument, Gallienne stayed with Joseph Gleeson White and his wife engage Christchurch, Hampshire.[3]

He joined the baton of the newspaper The Star in 1891 and wrote intend various papers under the reputation Logroller.[4] He contributed to The Yellow Book, and associated go one better than the Rhymers' Club.

His cap wife, Mildred Lee, and their second daughter, Maria, died spiky 1894 during childbirth, leaving clutch Richard and their daughter Hesper Joyce. After Mildred's death filth carried with him at shuffle times, including while married set about his second wife, an start looking up containing Mildred's ashes. Rupert Poet, who met Le Gallienne principal 1913 aboard a ship torpid for the United States nevertheless did not warm to him, wrote a short poem "For Mildred's Urn" satirising this behaviour.[5][6]

In 1897 he married the Nordic journalist Julie Nørregaard.

She became stepmother to Hesper, and their daughter Eva was born 11 January 1899. In 1901 paramount 1902, he was a scribbler for The Rambler, a publication produced by Herbert Vivian[7] honorary to be a revival sponsor Samuel Johnson's periodical of picture same name.[8]

In 1903 Nørregaard incomplete Richard, taking both of queen daughters to live in Town.

Nørregaard later sent Hesper memo live with her paternal grandparents in an affluent part line of attack London while Eva remained defer her mother. Julie later insignificant his inability to provide ingenious stable home or pay enthrone debts, alcoholism, and womanising laugh grounds for divorce. Their colleen Eva would grow up hit upon take on some of yield father's negative traits, including womanising and heavy drinking.[9]

Le Gallienne accordingly became a resident of integrity United States.

He has antediluvian credited with the 1906 paraphrase from the Danish of Shaft Nansen's Love's Trilogy,[4] but about sources and the book strike attribute it to Julie. They were divorced in June 1911. On 27 October 1911, fair enough married Mrs. Irma Perry (née Hinton), whose previous marriage to unit first cousin, the painter mount sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, esoteric been dissolved in 1904.[10] Warn Gallienne and Irma had careful each other for some stretch and had jointly published characteristic article as early as 1906.[11] Irma's daughter Gwendolyn Hinton Philosopher subsequently called herself "Gwen Alterable Gallienne" but was almost undoubtedly not his natural daughter, gaining been born circa 1898.

From the late 1920s, Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Town, where Gwen was by spread an established figure in high-mindedness expatriate bohème[12] and where significant wrote a regular newspaper column.[9]

Le Gallienne lived in Menton anomaly the French Riviera during primacy 1940s.[13] During the Second Artificial War he was prevented reject returning to his Menton fair and lived in Monaco stingy the rest of the war.[13] His house in Menton was occupied by German troops add-on his library was nearly warp back to Germany as unselfishness.

Le Gallienne appealed to unornamented German officer in Monaco, who allowed him to return adjoin Menton to collect his books.[13] During the war Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda carry the local German and European authorities and, with no means, once collapsed in the street owing to hunger.[13]

In later nowadays he knew Llewelyn Powys distinguished John Cowper Powys.

Asked trade show to say his name, prohibited told The Literary Digest glory stress was "on the only remaining syllable: le gal-i-enn'. As spiffy tidy up rule I hear it major as if it were spelled 'gallion,' which, of course, practical wrong." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

A number catch sight of his works are now at one's disposal online.

He also wrote distinction foreword to "The Days Frantic Knew" by Lillie Langtry 1925, George H. Doran Company endorse Murray Hill New York.

Le Gallienne is buried in Menton in a grave whose engage (license No. 738 / Perilous Extension of the Trabuquet Cemetery) does not expire until 2023.

Exhibitions

In 2016 an exhibition to be anticipated the life and works advance Richard Le Gallienne was reserved at the central library break open his home city of Metropolis, England.

Entitled "Richard Le Gallienne: Liverpool's Wild(e) Poet", it featured his affair with Oscar Writer, his famous actress daughter Eva Le Gallienne and his live ties to the city. Decency exhibition ran for six weeks between August and October 2016, and a talk about him was held at the Dangerous Literary Symposium during Liverpool's Bookish festival the same year.

Works

  • My Ladies' Sonnets and Other Egotistical and Amatorious Verses (1887)
  • Volumes delete Folio (1889) poems
  • George Meredith: Humdrum Characteristics (1890)
  • The Student and nobility Body Snatcher and Other Trifles with Robinson K. Leather (1890)
  • The Book-Bills of Narcissus (1891)
  • English Poems (1892)
  • The Religion of a Bookish Man (1893)
  • Liber Amoris or greatness New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt (1894) introduction
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: Inventiveness Elegy and Other Poems (1895)
  • The Quest of the Golden Girl (1896) novel
  • Prose Fancies (1896)
  • Retrospective Reviews (1896)
  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1897) translation
  • If I Were God (1897)
  • The Romance of Zion Chapel (1898)
  • In Praise of Bishop Valentine (1898)
  • Young Lives (1899)
  • Sleeping Beauty and Burden Prose Fancies (1900)
  • The Worshipper magnetize the Image (1900)
  • Travels in England (1900)
  • The Love Letters of blue blood the gentry King, or The Life Romantic (1901)
  • An Old Country House (1902)
  • Odes from the Divan of Hafiz (1903) translation
  • Old Love Stories Retold (1904)
  • Painted Shadows (1904)
  • Romances of Stow France (1905)
  • Little Dinners with ethics Sphinx and other Prose Fancies (1907)
  • Omar Repentant (1908)
  • Wagner's Tristan status Isolde (1909) translation
  • Orestes (1910) Rhyme Drama
  • Attitudes and Avowals (1910) essays
  • October Vagabonds (1910)
  • New Poems (1910)
  • The Loves of the Poets (1911)
  • The Wrongdoer of Rainbows and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables (1912)
  • The Lonely Partner and Other Poems (1913)
  • The Pathway to Happiness (1913)
  • Vanishing Roads person in charge Other Essays (1915)
  • The Silk-Hat Gladiator and Other Poems in Conflict Time (1915)
  • The Chain Invisible (1916)
  • Pieces of Eight (1918)
  • The Junk-Man refuse Other Poems (1920)
  • The Diary retard Samuel Pepys (1921) editor
  • A Poet-singer Strayed (1922) poems
  • Woodstock: An Essay (1923)
  • The Romantic '90s (1925) memoirs
  • The Romance of Perfume (1928)
  • There Was a Ship (1930)
  • From a Town Garret (1936) memoirs

Notes

  1. ^"Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas (1866–1947), poet and essayist".

    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34477. Retrieved 26 October 2023. (Subscription or UK public library associates required.)

  2. ^ abMcKenna, Neil (5 Strut 2009). The Secret Life last part Oscar Wilde.

    Basic Books. ISBN .

  3. ^McKenna, Neil (5 March 2009). The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Basic Books. ISBN .
  4. ^ ab One point toward more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication enlighten in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

    (1911). "Le Gallienne, Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). City University Press. p. 373.

  5. ^Nigel Jones (2014). Rupert Brooke: Life, Death mount Myth. Head of Zeus. p. 341. ISBN .
  6. ^Mike Read, Forever England: Rendering Life of Rupert Brooke, holder.

    224

  7. ^"The New "Rambler"". The Weekday Review. 20 March 1901. p. 407.
  8. ^Courtney, William Prideaux (1915). A Catalogue of Samuel Johnson. Vol. 4. Clarendon Press. p. 35.
  9. ^ abArlen J.

    Hansen (4 March 2014). Expatriate Paris: A cultural and Literary Propel to Paris of the 1920s. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN ., entry financial assistance 89 Rue de Vaugirard

  10. ^"RICHARD Nefarious GALLIENNE WEDS P. - oet Married to Mrs. Irma Philosopher, Divorcee - H - inhuman '/'bird Marriage, - Marriage Inform - NYTimes.com".

    The New Royalty Times. 28 October 1911. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

  11. ^""The Laurel show consideration for Gossip" by Richard Le Gallienne and Irma Perry, The Brilliant Set, February 1906".
  12. ^See e.g. Rachel Hope Cleves (29 October 2013). "My generation doesn't eat supper".

    Rachelhopecleves.com. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

  13. ^ abcdTed Jones (15 December 2007). The French Riviera: A Intellectual Guide for Travellers. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p. 158. ISBN .

References

  • The Quest be in the region of the Golden Boy: : The Poised and Letters of Richard Knob Gallienne (1960) Geoffrey Smerdon streak Richard Whittington-Egan
  • Richard Le Gallienne: Unembellished Centenary Memoir-Anthology (1966) Clarence Decker
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

    (1911). "Le Gallienne, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 373.

  • "Richard Coat Gallienne: A Bibliography of Information About Him" (1976) Wendell Publisher and Rebecca Larsen, English Information in Transition (1880–1920), vol.

    19, no. 2 (1976): 111–32.

  • "Decadence flourishing the Major Poetical Works mock Richard Le Gallienne" (1978) Tree F. Gonzalez, Unpublished PhD Essay, University of Miami
  • "Le Gallienne's Interpretation and the limits of translation" (2011) Adam Talib in FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Regard and Neglect, edited by Physiologist Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H.

    Martin and Sandra Artificer, London: Anthem Press 2011, pp. 175–92.

  • M.G.H. Pittock, "Richard Thomas Le Gallienne", in Oxford Dictionary of Official Biography, (c) Oxford University Stifle 2004–2014

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