If Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin, his novel Cakes and Ale contains characterizations of which English author who never lived in Wessex?
"him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality. Two of his later novels were based on historical people: ""The Moon and Sixpence"" is about the life of Paul Gauguin; and ""Cakes and Ale"" contains what were taken as thinly veiled and unflattering characterisations of the authors Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously) and Hugh Walpole. Maugham himself denied any intention of doing this in a long letter to Walpole: ""I certainly never intended Alroy Kear to be a portrait of you. He is made up of"
"The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is written largely from the point of view of the narrator, a young, aspiring writer and playwright in London. Certain"
"which he painted on the walls of his hut before losing his sight to leprosy, was burnt after his death by his wife per his dying orders. ""The Moon and Sixpence"" is not, of course, a life of Paul Gauguin in the form of fiction. It is founded on what I had heard about him, but I used only the main facts of his story and for the rest trusted to such gifts of invention as I was fortunate enough to possess. The life of the French artist Paul Gauguin is the inspiration for the story, however the character of"
"while the novelist Hammond Innes (1913–98) was born in Horsham. In addition there are writers, who while they were not born in Sussex had a strong connection. This includes William Blake (1757–1827), who moved to Felpham in 1800 on the advice of Sussex poet William Hayley (1745-1820). Tried and cleared of the crime of sedition at the county court of Quarter Sessions in 1804, Blake returned to London later that year. One of Victorian England's most famous poets Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) spent his summers, away from the holiday crowds of the Isle of Wight, at Aldworth House, Blackdown, which he"
"associated with specific regions of England; these include Charles Dickens (London), Thomas Hardy (Wessex), A. E. Housman (Shropshire), and the Lake Poets (the Lake District). In the lighter vein, Agatha Christie's mystery novels are outsold only by Shakespeare and The Bible. Described as ""perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture"", the non-fiction works of George Orwell include ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England. Orwell's eleven rules for making tea appear in his essay ""A Nice Cup of Tea"", which was published in the ""London Evening Standard"""
"Cakes and Ale Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her, and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours. Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"": """"Dost thou think,"
"– closes with a return to this ""future"" setting. A character named ""William Ashenden"" is the narrator of Maugham's novels ""Cakes and Ale,"" ""The Moon and Sixpence"" and ""The Razor's Edge"". Ashenden is also the name of a character who appears in several of Maugham's short stories. The character appears briefly in the book ""The Bloody Red Baron"" by Kim Newman Ashenden: Or the British Agent Ashenden: Or the British Agent is a 1928 collection of loosely linked stories by W. Somerset Maugham. It is partly based on the author's experience as a member of British Intelligence in Europe during"
"the Pacific to research his novel ""The Moon and Sixpence"", based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of his journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which inspired his novels. He became known as a writer who portrayed the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output. On this and all subsequent journeys, he was accompanied by Haxton, whom he regarded as indispensable to his success as a writer. Maugham was painfully shy, and"
"the time the crime was committed. It is also mentioned frequently in Stephen King's 1998 novel ""Bag of Bones"" and in passing in his 2015 novel ""Finders Keepers"". Ray Noble's 1932 dance band hit ""We've Got the Moon and Sixpence"", sung by Al Bowlly, takes its name from the book and Jack Kerouac mentions the book in his 1958 novella ""The Subterraneans"". Mario Vargas Llosa's 2003 novel ""The Way to Paradise"" is also based on Paul Gauguin's life. The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told"
"was published in the United States and told the story of ""a novelist who writes novels about other novelists"", and furthered the speculation about the Walpole/Kear association. It was rumoured that the author was Hugh Walpole himself, after the novel appeared in England under the title ""Full Circle"". The book was quickly removed from sale by its English publisher, supposedly at the behest of Somerset Maugham. The true author was later discovered to be Elinor Mordaunt. In ""The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem"", Myrick Land asserts that ""Cakes and Ale"" ruined the last 11 years of Walpole's life and destroyed"
"regional literature genre, which are set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent. Other writers from Sussex include Maureen Duffy and Hammond Innes. In addition there are writers, who while they were not born in Sussex had a strong connection. This includes William Blake and Alfred Tennyson. Sussex has been home to four winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Rudyard Kipling spent much of his life in Sussex, living in Rottingdean and later at Burwash. Irishman W.B. Yeats spent three winters living with American poet Ezra Pound at Colemans Hatch in the Ashdown Forest and towards the end of"
"is set in Dorchester, Hardy's Casterbridge, and was intended by Powys to be a ""rival"" to Hardy's ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"". ""Maiden Castle"" is the last of Powys's so-called Wessex novels, ""Wolf Solent"" (1929), ""A Glastonbury Romance"" (1932), and ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934), which are set in Somerset and Dorset. Hardy was clearly the starting point for the character of the novelist Edward Driffield in W. Somerset Maugham's novel ""Cakes and Ale"" (1930). Thomas Hardy's works also feature prominently in the American playwright Christopher Durang's ""The Marriage of Bette and Boo"" (1985), in which a graduate thesis analysing ""Tess of the"
"the traditionalists. By the 1930s, though his public success remained considerable, many literary critics saw Walpole as outdated. His reputation in literary circles took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel ""Cakes and Ale"": the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more pushy ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole. In the same year Walpole wrote possibly his best-known work, ""Rogue Herries"", a historical novel set in the Lake District. It was well-received: ""The Daily Mail"" considered it ""not only a profound study of human character, but a subtle and"
"his reputation as a writer. In 1974, the BBC released a three episode mini-series ""Cakes and Ale"", starring Michael Hordern and Judy Cornwell. It was rebroadcast on Masterpiece Theatre in the US. Cakes and Ale Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many"
"Vaughan Wilkins William Vaughan Wilkins (March 6, 1890 – February, 1959) was an English historical novelist and journalist. He has been described as Welsh, and some of his books have Welsh settings, but there does not seem to be any evidence for Welsh origins. Vaughan Wilkins was born in Camberwell, London. His father, William Henry Wilkins, was a clergyman (born in Nottingham in 1857) and his mother, Charlotte Wilkins, née Law, a voice teacher (born in London). He married Mary Isabel Stanistreet and had two children. He spent some time working as a journalist for the Daily Express. Wilkins was"
"the area around his family home at the vicarage of Selborne in Hampshire. Many of the 'letters' were never posted, and were written especially for the book. Patrick Armstrong, in his book ""The English Parson-Naturalist"", notes that in particular, ""an obvious example is the first, nominally to Thomas Pennant, but which is clearly contrived, as it introduces the parish, briefly summarizing its position, geography and principal physical features."" White's biographer, Richard Mabey, estimates that up to 46 out of 66 'letters to Daines Barrington' ""were probably never sent through the post""; Mabey explains that it is hard to be more"
"the Galaxy"" while he lived in Stalbridge; John le Carré, author of espionage novels, was born in Poole; Tom Sharpe of ""Wilt"" fame lived in Bridport; John Fowles (""The French Lieutenant's Woman"") lived in Lyme Regis before he died in late 2005; T.F. Powys lived in Chaldon Herring for over 20 years and used it as inspiration for the fictitious village of Folly Down in his novel ""Mr. Weston's Good Wine""; John Cowper Powys, his elder brother, also set a number of his works in Dorset, such as the novels ""Maiden Castle"" and ""Weymouth Sands"". The 19th-century poet William Barnes"
"is thought to have collaborated with Shakespeare. In the 18th century poet William Collins (1721–59), was born in Chichester and in the Romantic period poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), was born at Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham. Victorian poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), was born at Petworth House, Petworth. The poet, writer and Member of Parliament Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) spent most of his life in Sussex, growing up in Slindon and returning to the county to live at Shipley. Belloc's works include """" in which four characters journey on foot across the Sussex from Robertsbridge to Harting. Belloc is"
"to some sources, the title, the meaning of which is not explicitly revealed in the book, was taken from a review of Maugham's novel ""Of Human Bondage"" in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as ""so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet."" According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, ""If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon."" Maugham's title echoes the description of Gauguin by his contemporary biographer, Meier-Graefe (1908): ""He [Gauguin] may be charged with having always"
"artist and you are right, you're not mad, I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I know it that I have endured such sufferings. To have done otherwise I would consider myself a brigand -- which is what many people think I am."" Dickson sums up the novel as follows: ""Maugham was fascinated by the impact of the arrival of modernism from Europe on an insular British consciousness and the emergence of the cult of the modernist artist-genius -- ""The Moon and Sixpence"" is at once a satire of Edwardian mores and a Gauguin biography."" According"
"his life spent much time at Steyning and Withyham; John Galsworthy spent much of his life in Bury in the Sussex Downs; and Harold Pinter lived in Worthing in the 1960s. H.G. Wells was brought up at Uppark, South Harting, near Petersfield, where his mother was housekeeper. He also went to school and taught in Midhurst. While the novelist John Cowper Powys is particularly associated with Dorset and Wales, he lived in Sussex from the mid-1890s until 1910. Another modernist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and her husband Leonard, had a country retreat at Monk's House in Rodmell near Lewes from 1919."
"spent a large part of his life living and working in London; his contemporary Ben Jonson was also based there, and some of his work, most notably his play ""The Alchemist"", was set in the city. ""A Journal of the Plague Year"" (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a fictionalisation of the events of the 1665 Great Plague. The literary centres of London have traditionally been hilly Hampstead and (since the early 20th century) Bloomsbury. Writers closely associated with the city are the diarist Samuel Pepys, noted for his eyewitness account of the Great Fire, Charles Dickens, whose representation of a"
"the birthplace of authors Jane Austen, Wilbert Awdry and Charles Dickens, and the residence of others, such as Charles Kingsley and Mrs Gaskell. Austen lived most of her life in Hampshire, where her father was rector of Steventon, and wrote all of her novels in the county. Hampshire also has many visual art connections, claiming the painter John Everett Millais as a native, and the cities and countryside have been the subject of paintings by L. S. Lowry and J. M. W. Turner. Selborne was the home of Gilbert White; his house is now a museum, which also includes The"
"In 1881 he was retired and lodging in Elm Grove Marston Lodge in Portsea, Portsmouth. He was unmarried. Henry Hawkes Henry Hawkes B.A., FLS. (1805–1886) was an English unitarian clergyman and author, born at Dukinfield, now part of Greater Manchester. He is best known for his memoir of the ragged schools originator John Pounds (1766—1839), to whom he was introduced in 1833, soon after arriving in Portsmouth to serve as a minister. His published works include sermons and ""The Passover Moon"" (1878) a study of the divinity of Christ. He was christened on 28 April 1805 at the Old Chapel-Presbyterian,"
"as the author of a pseudonymous novel called ""Gin and Bitters"", referencing the debate in the London publishing world over whether Somerset Maugham had based the character of Alroy Kear in ""Cakes and Ale"" on Hugh Walpole. The book was removed from sale in the UK, apparently under pressure from Maugham. On 27 January 1933 at Tenerife, Canary Islands, she was married to Robert Rawnsley Bowles, aged 66, a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage 'ended in tragedy'. She died on 25 June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Elinor Mordaunt Elinor Mordaunt (also known as"
"a best-selling author with his novels translated into many languages. He wrote over thirty books including novels, travel books, plays, and biographical works such as ""Somerset and all the Maughams"" (Heinemann 1966). Described as ""defiantly homosexual"", but, in fact, bisexual, Maugham never married, and the viscountcy became extinct upon his death. He died from a pulmonary embolism, compounded by long-standing diabetes mellitus, although an official cause of death was difficult to obtain as his body was apparently lost for forty-eight hours after his death. He had three sisters: Kate, Honor, and novelist Diana Marr-Johnson (1908–2007). He is buried in Hartfield,"
"for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur team not to be confused with the later professional Portsmouth Football Club. Rudyard Kipling, poet and author of the ""Jungle Book"", and H. G. Wells, author of ""War of the Worlds"" and ""The Time Machine"", lived in Portsmouth during the 1880s. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian, was born in Portsmouth, writing one novel set exclusively in the town, ""By Celia's Arbour, A Tale of Portsmouth Town"". Historian Frances Yates was born in Portsmouth and is known for her work on Renaissance esotericism. Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived"
"of London and the south of England. John Cowper Powys has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and ""Wolf Solent"", ""A Glastonbury Romance"" (1932), along with ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934) and ""Maiden Castle"" (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels. As with Hardy's novels, the landscape plays a major role in Powys's works, and an elemental philosophy is important in the lives of his characters. Powys's first novel ""Wood and Stone"" was dedicated to Thomas Hardy. ""Maiden Castle"", the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which he intended to be"
"was born in Chiswick in 1733. The artist William Hogarth bought the house now known as Hogarth's House in 1749, lived there until his death in 1764, and is buried in St Nicholas's churchyard. The house later belonged to the poet and translator of Dante, Henry Francis Cary, who lived there from 1814 to 1833. In February 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived a few weeks with a local grocer, before moving to Wootton. In the 19th century, the Italian writer, revolutionary and poet Ugo Foscolo, died in exile at Turnham Green in 1827, and was buried at St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick,"
"he would have encountered poet John Clare, whose behaviour became so erratic that he was removed to the asylum in 1837. William Morris, artist, writer and socialist, was born in Walthamstow in 1834, and spent his early years in what was then rural Essex, close to the outlying sections of the forest. Arthur Morrison, ""the English Zola"", lived successively at Chingford, Loughton, and High Beach in the forest, and – particularly in ""To London Town"" – the forest is used as a contrast to the East London deprivation he wrote about. Horace Newte, his contemporary and friend, lived at Loughton"
"Thomas Hardy's Wessex The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in the south and southwest of England. He named the area ""Wessex"" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"". In an 1895 preface to the novel ""Far From the Madding Crowd"" he described"
"remembered in an annual celebration in Sussex known as Belloc Night that takes place on the writer's birthday, 27 July, in the manner of Burns Night in Scotland. The celebration includes reading from Belloc's work and partaking of a bread and cheese supper with pickles. The twentieth-century novelist Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956) was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, and lived most of her life in Sussex. She is known for her many novels in the British regional literature genre, which are set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent. Poet, playwright and novelist Maureen Duffy (1933- ) comes from Worthing,"
"other works are focused on this topic: ""The Moon and Sixpence"" (the main character has some resemblance with Paul Gauguin). Maugham wrote an article for ""Life Magazine"" titled “Painting I Have Liked”. ""Of Human Bondage"" is, probably, the most vivid instance of Maugham's inclination towards arts. According to Stanley Archer, more than 30 artists are named in the book, 10 famous paintings are mentioned by name and many others are referred to. Over half of the 33 artists named in the novel were painters whose careers developed primarily in the 19th century. Of these, 13 are French, five English, and"