Richard Kennedy (1) (1910–1989)
Auteur van A Boy at the Hogarth Press
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- 1910-04-09
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- 1989-02-11
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- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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- Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
Bexhill, Sussex, England, UK - Opleiding
- Marlborough College (Wiltshire, England, UK)
University College London - Beroepen
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- Richard Kennedy's father was killed in WW1 and he was brought up by "two uneducated women" - his mother and his nurse. His grandmother wangled a scholarship to Marlborough but he was no scholar and left at 16 to take up an apprenticeship at the Hogarth Press under Leonard Woolf. He later had a distinguished artistic career.
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Kennedy had little going for him other than some relatives who could pull some strings; an ability to come back from failure and a desire to become an artist (drawer; painter etc)...in time he became (apparently) a well known and successful childrens' books illustrator in particular.
The time at Hogarth Press involved interacting with many well know names (most of whom I knew of, though I ma not overly familiar with their works and hence many of the anecdotes probably made less impression on me than someone more familiar.
Sue Gee, the writer of the preface, is quoted in the advertising blurb as describing one episode involving the collapse of a shelf erected by Kennedy some weeks previously as 'a small work of comic writing", as to which I agree as to the 'small' and the 'comic' but have trouble with the 'masterpiece'. That those immediately impacted by the deluge of papers resulting from the collapse of the shelf were Leonard Woolf and Lord [Laurence] Olivier, who reportedly simply moved out of the way, without comment or reaction as to the avalanche of papers, may have been extremely amusing in real life, but it left a little on the page for me.
The second memoir in this volume is earlier in time and addresses Kennedy's early years growing up in the times before, during and immediately after WW1, with the havoc that that brought to his immediate and wider family. At one time a young Kennedy made known to strangers that his father and 3 uncles had been lost in the (then still current) war, leaving those strangers puzzled as to how to respond, and the young Kennedy querulous as to why they did not respond more enthusiastically as to this show of
But both small memoirs should not be dismissed. They provide an insight into particular experiences at a place and time with which so many of us have no direct experience. One wonders what what will be written by Kennedy's equivalents facing the attainment of employment in the uncertain times of today or of his Ukrainian avatars given what is currently happening there.
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