
Throughout his short, unhappy life, C acquired a reputation for secrecy. Misunderstood by his parents and classmates, he became accustomed to hiding his true feelings and it was only after his death that the details of his private life were discovered. C's personal effects were...

It was in January, 1923, that I received a letter from an old friend of mine, a journalist and a traveller, whom I will call Walter Wright, from which the following is an extract:-- New York. July, 1922. . . . You will remember my telling you about Gerald Malone's papers two...

Baring's homage to a decadent and carefree Edwardian age depicts a society as yet untainted by the traumas and complexities of twentieth-century living. With wit and subtlety a happy picture is drawn of family life, house parties in the country and a leisured existence clouded...