Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
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Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
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Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner
New York: George Braziller, 1965
p. 114
It appeared on November 30, 1901, and was the best publicity the novel [Cynthia´s Damages] received, but sales did not pick up, and Reggie mourned in a pre-Christmas letter to Max (from a hotel in Nice) that he was nearly broke....
p.121
Another, a Christmas essay, is one of Reggie’s happiest creations. Part of the essay clearly comes from the author´s own experience of travel and nostalgia for England:
…It is in the gloomy northern climate that such a festival has peculiar value. It is only in such a sullen atmosphere that our hearts, weary of the oppression without, turn inwards....In those bright spots [Cairo or on the Riviera] the winter season may be gay...and the sun warm the body...it is there that one feels the hollowness of Yuletide rejoicings, the mockery of traditional feasts. Yuletide calls for a Yule log; and to eat plum pudding under African sky is to realize, as never before, the vanity of all things, and the pettiness of man in particular. Snapdragon within call of alligators, mistletoe among the glowing oranges--those are things one had better not experience…
New York: George Braziller, 1965
p. 114
It appeared on November 30, 1901, and was the best publicity the novel [Cynthia´s Damages] received, but sales did not pick up, and Reggie mourned in a pre-Christmas letter to Max (from a hotel in Nice) that he was nearly broke....
p.121
Another, a Christmas essay, is one of Reggie’s happiest creations. Part of the essay clearly comes from the author´s own experience of travel and nostalgia for England:
…It is in the gloomy northern climate that such a festival has peculiar value. It is only in such a sullen atmosphere that our hearts, weary of the oppression without, turn inwards....In those bright spots [Cairo or on the Riviera] the winter season may be gay...and the sun warm the body...it is there that one feels the hollowness of Yuletide rejoicings, the mockery of traditional feasts. Yuletide calls for a Yule log; and to eat plum pudding under African sky is to realize, as never before, the vanity of all things, and the pettiness of man in particular. Snapdragon within call of alligators, mistletoe among the glowing oranges--those are things one had better not experience…
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“Reggie:A Portrait of Reginald Turner,” WCU Libraries Online Exhibits, accessed April 19, 2024, https://onlineexhibits.omeka.net/items/show/94.