WALTER LIONEL GEORGE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 09/02/1923 - HFSID 273099
Price: $220.00
WALTER L. GEORGE. ALS: "WL George", 4½x3½ card. 26
Albion Street, W., 1923 September 2. On imprinted card to "Dear
Waugh". In full: "I am finishing 'Nobody Knows', and can say
that 'Nobody Knows' is the most interesting novel I have read for many months! -
If that's any use for publicity, please use it. Yrs sincerely". In the
year he wrote this letter, George published One of the Guilty. Waugh was
probably British publisher and literary critic ARTHUR WAUGH (1866-1943), the
father of author Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whose most famous work was
Brideshead Revisited (1945), and grandfather of British writer and
journalist Auberon Waugh (1939-2001). British writer WALTER LIONEL
GEORGE (1882-1926), who was born and brought up in Paris, was best known
for his novels, including A Bed of Roses (1911), The Making of an
Englishman (1917), The Triumph of Gallio (1924) and Gift of
Sheba (1926), and such writings on feminism as Woman and
Tomorrow (1913), The Intelligence of Woman (1916) and The Story of
Woman (1925). George also wrote a number of non-fiction works,
beginning with Engines of Social Progress (1907) and France in the
Twentieth Century (1908), as well as short stories, some of which
were published posthumously as The Selected Short Stories of W.L. George
(1927). Ink smudged at two words. Slightly soiled. Overall, fine
condition.
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