Mortimer, Raymond, 1895-1980
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1895-04-25 - 1980-01-09
biographical statement
British writer, known mostly as a critic and literary editor.
He was born in Knightsbridge, London, and brought up in Redhill, Surrey. He was educated at Malvern College, and Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered in 1913 to read history. His studies were interrupted by service in a hospital in France from 1915; and then work in the Foreign Office. He did not complete his degree.
In the 1920s he was in Paris, writing fiction. He later became literary editor of the New Statesman, worked at the BBC and in liaison with the Free French in World War II, and subsequently as a reviewer for the Sunday Times.
Citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_MortimerFound in 1 Collection or Record:
Jean Rhys archive
Collection
Identifier: 1976-011
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts relating to colonial writer and author of Wide Sargasso Sea: drafts of stories, letters to, from and about her; sound recordings; reviews of her books; interviews with and articles about her.Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had two intensely creative periods in her career as novelist and story writer; the first from about 1920 to 1935 and the second from about 1950 until her death in 1979. Apart from her published work, few records of the earlier period are known to survive....
Dates:
1920 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1979