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112:. He is sometimes identified as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was slighter than this might suggest (and also ended angrily, though this is a lesser indication). Holbrook was called up for military service with the
221:(1966), told the story of the escapades of Paul Grimmer (Holbrook's fictionalised persona) as a tank officer in the Normandy invasions. The events of Grimmer's adolescent life up to his enlistment were recounted in
186:, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, and held contributions by sixteen academics and teachers from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, including a portrait written by
214:—most characters were identified by their real names—but they were closely based on real events without the constraints of veracity. The novels were not written in the internal chronological order.
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Holbrook wrote several novels based on his own life and his family history. These were not
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Exploring Word: Creative Disciplines in the Education of Teachers of English
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Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis's Fantasies: A Phenomenological Study
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Australia Now. Notes on a visit to Victoria and other states
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Tolstoy, Woman, and Death. A Study of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
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Lights in the Sky Country: Mary Easter and Stories of East Anglia
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Llareggub Revisited. Dylan Thomas and the state of modern poetry
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248:. Holbrook's father worked as a railway booking clerk in
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171:in 1981 and an Emeritus Fellow of Downing in 1988.
949:A Study of George MacDonald and the Image of Women
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182:in October 1995. The book of essays is edited by
124:(1966) is a lightly fictionalised account of his
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340:(An edition of 280 signed and numbered copies).
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151:. He then took up teaching positions, for the
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108:for a year in 1941, where he was a pupil of
617:(1962) editor, school short story anthology
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143:After Cambridge, he became an editor with
104:and won a scholarship to study English at
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883:Edith Wharton and the Unsatisfactory Man
569:Education and Philosophical Anthropology
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32:This article includes a list of general
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889:Where Lawrence Was Wrong About Woman
799:Moments in Italy: Poems and Sketches
676:Iron, Honey, Gold: The Uses of Verse
658:Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation
443:Where Lawrence Was Wrong About Woman
334:Moments in Italy: Poems and Sketches
317:. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969.
1068:Downing Association Newsletter 1996
992:Reprinted Norwich: Mousehold, 2004
931:Wuthering Heights: A Drama of Being
769:Gustav Mahler and The Courage To Be
467:Wuthering Heights: A Drama of Being
387:Gustav Mahler and the Courage to Be
140:, and gave him a frosty reception.
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242:Midland and Great Northern Railway
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