Living by Henry Green

[Vivienne14]

This book, recommended by Evelyn Waugh in 1930, deals with the subject matter of an iron foundry in Birmingham. Someone may be interested. Viv.

 

[Stokkie]

Thanks for mentioning Henry Green, he wrote nine novels, but earned his living working in the family firm H Pontifex & Sons, starting on the factory floor and becoming managing director eventually. He manages to empathise with the workers to a remarkable degree, for an Eton and Oxford aristocrat. His novels are experimental, not least in their prose style. I'd recommend him for anyone who enjoys Virginia Woolf and who is not put off by modernist fiction with a wider social range. He worked in the Auxiliary Fire Service in the war. Party Going is a favourite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Green

 

[Maria Magenta]

Thanks for mentioning Henry Green, he wrote nine novels, but earned his living working in the family firm H Pontifex & Sons, starting on the factory floor and becoming managing director eventually. He manages to empathise with the workers to a remarkable degree, for an Eton and Oxford aristocrat. His novels are experimental, not least in their prose style. I'd recommend him for anyone who enjoys Virginia Woolf and who is not put off by modernist fiction with a wider social range. He worked in the Auxiliary Fire Service in the war. Party Going is a favourite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Green

I read it a long time ago, when books like this were available in public libraries.

 

[Stokkie]

I read it a long time ago, when books like this were available in public libraries.

We lived in a golden age and modern & contemporary fiction was the first to go. Available on Kindle from £3.99 if anyone wants to read him. That's something I suppose.

 

[Stokkie]

Henry Green has an informative Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Green

He wrote an early autobiography 'Pack My Bag' in 1940.
Jeremy Treglown wrote a biography of Green, Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, Faber, 2000.

 

[Maria Magenta]

Henry Green has an informative Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Green

He wrote an early autobiography 'Pack My Bag' in 1940.
Jeremy Treglown wrote a biography of Green, Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, Faber, 2000.

Thank you - I will look for both!