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All good friends and jolly good company: life with the Crichel Boys

All good friends and jolly good company: life with the Crichel Boys
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In an age when being gay was illegal, four literary men set up house in Dorset

Holed up in a freezing Army camp in the far north of Scotland in 1941, the shivering and lonely young music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor dreamed up the idea of living down South with like-minded friends after the war. He envisaged a pretty house with a piano, books, gramophone records, shabby armchairs, pictures and sparkling conversation round the dinner table. It came to pass, just as he had hoped. In spring 1945, he and two friends music critic Eddy Sackville-West, cousin of Vita, and art dealer Eardley Knollys snapped up an old rectory in Long Crichel, Dorset for £7,500. They were joined in 1949 by the literary critic Raymond Mortimer, who bought a quarter share.

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Mitford, Garbo and a dodgy septic tank: inside England s last great literary salon

Mitford, Garbo and a dodgy septic tank: inside England s last great literary salon Why did everyone from Graham Greene to Benjamin Britten flock to rural Dorset? To meet the Crichel Boys 14 February 2021 • 12:00pm ‘Prose factory’: the rectory at Long Crichel, Dorset Credit: David Grandorge Nancy Mitford, a regular visitor to Long Crichel, a Queen Anne rectory in Dorset, called the house “a prose factory” and its owners “the Brontës”. For Rosamond Lehmann, a visit was one of her “treats and pleasures”. Ben Nicolson, the elder son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, said that “Crichel is almost too good to be true… it seems to me the ideal house.” It was the last of the great English literary salons.

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A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader

A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader Sybille Bedford, at right, in Normandy with Allanah Harper, a lover turned friend and provider.Credit.via the Sybille Bedford Estate Buy Book ▾ By Brooke Allen By Selina Hastings Sybille Bedford is not a household name, but among her coterie of admirers in Europe and America she is held in high esteem. Her reputation rests upon a relatively slim literary output over the course of a long life (1911-2006): notably, four works of fiction (three earlier novels were deemed inferior and remain unpublished), a memoir, books about travel and international legal processes, a biography of her friend Aldous Huxley that is still the definitive one, and sundry journalism. Her first published novel, “A Legacy” (1956), rescued from possible oblivion by Evelyn Waugh’s encomium in The Spectator, has become something of a cult classic. She had limitations as a writer, the most significant being that she really had only one story to tell: t

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