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Ankenym Powysjournal 1996
Powys Journal, 1996, vol. 6, pp. 7-61. ISSN: 0962-7057 http://www.powys-society.org/ http://www.powys-society.org/The%20Powys%20Society%20-%20Journal.htm © 1996 Powys Society. All rights reserved. Drawing of John Cowper Powys by Ivan Opffer, 1920 MELVON L. ANKENY Lloyd Emerson Siberell, Powys 'Bibliomaniac' and 'Extravagantic' John Cowper Powys referred to him as 'a "character", if you catch my meaning, this good Emerson Lloyd S. — a very resolute chap (with a grand job in a big office) & a swarthy black- haired black-coated Connoisseur air, as a Missioner of a guileless culture, but I fancy no fool in his office or in the bosom of his family!'1 and would later describe him as 'a grand stand-by & yet what an Extravagantic on his own our great Siberell is for now and for always!'2 Lloyd Emerson Siberell, the 'Extravagantic' from the midwestern United States, had a lifelong fascination and enthusiasm for the Powys family and in pursuit of his avocations as magazine editor, publisher, writer, critic, literary agent, collector, and corresponding friend was a constant voice championing the Powys cause for over thirty years. Sometimes over-zealous, always persistent, unfailingly solicitous, both utilized and ignored, he served the family faithfully as an American champion of their art. He was born on 18 September 1905 and spent his early years in the small town of Kingston, Ohio; 'a wide place in the road, on the fringe of the beautiful Pickaway plains the heart of Ohio's farming region, at the back door of the country, so to speak.' In his high school days he 'was always too busy reading the books [he] liked and playing truant to ever study seriously...' He 'enjoyed life' and was 'a voracious reader but conversely not the bookworm type of man.'3 At seventeen he left school and worked a year at the Mead Corporation paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio and from this experience he dated his interest in the art and craft of paper and paper making. -
Opening Article Is an Edition of Her Journals 1923-48 (1973)
The Powys Review NUMBER EIGHT Angus Wilson SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE "A very distinguished novel ... It is superb entertain- ment and social criticism but it is also a poem about the life of human beings - a moving and disturbing book and a very superior piece of art.'' Anthony Burgess, Observer "Wonderfully intricate and haunting new novel. The complex relationships between art and reality . are explored with a mixture of elegance, panache and concern that is peculiarly his ... magnificent." Margaret Drabble, Listener "As much for the truth and pathos of its central relation- ships as for the brilliance of the grotesques who sur- round them, I found Setting the World on Fire the most successful Wilson novel since Late Call. I enjoyed it very much indeed.'' Michael Ratcliffe, The Times "A novel which will give much pleasure and which exemplifies the civilised standards it aims to defend." Thomas Hinde, Sunday Telegraph "A book which I admire very much . this is an immensely civilised novel, life enhancing, with wonder- fully satirical moments.'' David Holloway, Daily Telegraph "... an exceptionally rich work . the book is witty, complex and frightening, as well as beautifully written.'' Isobel Murray, Financial Times Cover: Mary Cowper Powys with (1. to r.) Llewelyn, Marian and Philippa, c. 1886. The Powys Review Editor Belinda Humfrey Reviews Editor Peter Miles Advisory Board Glen Cavaliero Ben Jones Derrick Stephens Correspondence, contributions, and books for review may be addressed to the Editor, Department of English, Saint David's University College, Lampeter, Dyfed, SA48 7ED Copyright ©, The Editor The Powys Review is published with the financial support of the Welsh Arts Council. -
Open; the Third Door Was Closed, That Subject
The Powvs Review NUMBER SEVENTEEN The Powys Review Editor Belinda Humfrey Reviews Editor Peter Miles Advisory Board Glen Cavaliero Ben Jones Ned Lukacher Correspondence, contributions, and books for review may be addressed to the Editor, Department of English, Saint David's University College, Lampeter, Dyfed, SA48 7ED. Copyright (c), The Editor The Powys Review is published with the financial support of the Welsh Arts Council. We are grateful to Mr Francis Powys and Laurence Pollinger Ltd., for permission to quote from the writings of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys, and to the late Mrs Evelyn Elwin for permission to quote from the writings of Llewelyn Powys. The Powys Review may be obtained from Booksellers for £2.50, or from Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, for £2.50 plus 60p postage. The Powys Review is printed by J. D. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed. Enquiries about advertisement in The Powys Review should be made to James Dawson, 99 Corve Street, Ludlow, Shropshire. Tel. Ludlow (0584) 2274. Contents Roland Mathias Reviews John Cowper Powys and 'Wales'. A Limited Study 5 Gillian Clarke Selected Poems Colin Style ANN STEVENSON 63 On Hardy's Sacred Ground: Gwyn A. Williams JohnCowperPowys's Weymouth Sands 27 When was Wales? A History of the Welsh Wynford Vaughan Thomas Peter G. Christensen Wales: A History Middlemarch: A Point of Reference in PAUL BENNETT MORGAN 64 Weymouth Sands 39 John Cowper Powys Margaret Moran Paddock Calls "Premonitory Hints and Embryo ANTHONY HEAD 67 Suggestions in J. C. Powys's Wood and Stone and Rodmoor 48 Valentine Ackland For Sylvia: An Honest Account CLAIRE HARMAN 70 G. -
Powys Society Newsletter 90, March 2017
Editorial Our back cover showing the Prophet Elijah smiting a priest of Baal (3 Kings 18, 40) il- lustrates Patrick Quigley’s account of Llewelyn Powys and Alyse’s journey to Palestine Llewelyn’s philosophy. Our December meeting discussed TFP’s friendship with Liam O’Flaherty and the Pro- gressive Bookshop, and the world of cruelty and hypocrisy in Mr. Tasker’s Gods, a book O’Flaherty greatly admired. T.F. Powys calls up very different responses, from those who see his world as controlled by demons of cruelty, and those who see their opposite, the besieged forces of light, innocence and kindness. Michael Kowalewski’s review in NL89, of Zouheir Jamoussi’s book on Theodore, emphasised the darkness and the role of an ‘Old Testament’ God of wrath. Ian Robinson, long-term publisher of TFP with the Brynmill Press, is of the party of the angels, and the long-suffering meek who are rewarded. TFP’s publisher Charles Prentice introduced the 1947 collection of stories, curiously named (by TF himself?) God’s Eyes A-Twinkle; and Glen Cavaliero’s poem imagines TFP sleeping beside, and in, the Map- powder churchyard. Nature, and seasons, were crucial to all the Powyses, and John Cowper’s years in up- state New York gave him sustained time to observe American skies, especially at sunrise. New books by our President (Collected Poems) and our Chairman (Figurative Painting) are reviewed. We have notes on JCP and music and on Alyse Gregory’s revised birth date. Members in Norfolk and New York visit two bookshops called after JCP’s late novel The Brazen Head. -
The Powys Circle
THE POWYS CIRCLE THE POWYS CIRCLE – WARNER, HANLEY, WILKINSON, REID, WOOLSEY, MENAI, & De KANTZOW Note: The Powys Family had a number of friends who were writers in their own right. Some of the friends were more associated with one of the Powyses than others but for ease of filing all have been grouped here. Sylvia Townsend Warner, novelist and poet, was a particular friend of Theodore Powys. James Hanley, novelist, was primarily JCP’s friend. Louis Wilkinson, novelist, was a family friend but closest to Llewelyn. Gamel Woolsey is best known as Llewelyn’s lover although a poet and novelist in her own right. Huw Menai, poet, was a Welsh friend of JCP. De Kantzow, a very minor poet befriended by JCP. NOTE: The Bissell material for all the circle is on left shelf together. The Feather material is also separate on right side. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYLVIA TOWSEND WARNER Note: There is a STW Archive at the Dorset County Museum. [BISSELL GIFT] Lolly Willows and Mr Fortune’s Maggot. 1 vol. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. New York: 1966. Note: Copies of the following books were in T.F.’s ex-libris. Now placed separately with other friends’ books. Time Importuned Some World From Ours Summer Will Show After the Death of Don Juan A Garland of Straw The Corner That Held Them A Moral Ending and Other Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Preface by T.F. Powys (reputedly the only one he ever did) London: Wm Jackson, 1931. No 8 of the Furnival Books. Edition of 550 copies. This copy is ‘out of series’. -
Llewelyn Powys
Llewelyn Powys: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Title: Llewelyn Powys Collection Dates: 1895-1972, undated Extent: 34 boxes (14.28 linear feet), 5 galley folders (gf) Abstract: Includes manuscripts of writings and letters of the British novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys, as well some of his personal, financial, and legal records. Many items were transcribed by his wife, the writer Alyse Gregory, and a number of her own manuscripts and letters are also present. Among the couple's correspondents are Gerald Brenan, Van Wyck Brooks, Theodore Dreiser, Ethel Mannin, Havelock Ellis, Naomi Mitchison, Clifford Musgrave, many Powys family members, Rose Rosamond, Marie Stopes, Gamel Woolsey, and many others. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Language: English and French Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2014 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 2 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Works: Unidentified: Article on wreck of the Abergavenny, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete, 10 Container pages, undated. Lacking first page. 1.1 Fragments, typescript/ fragments with handwritten revisions, 2 pages, undated. Fragments, eight handwritten, typed, and carbon copy manuscripts/ fragments, 1 page each, most undated. Some are copies by Alyse Gregory dated 1953. -
Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey
Russell and Gamel Woolsey 51 background, and to say something also of Gerald Brenan, who is a leading character in the story. Gerald Brenan has discussed his own life memorably in two volumes of autobiography, in the course of which he has also written perceptively of Russell; but the relevant background may be included here. The life of Gamel Woolsey I shall treat at greater length because of her importance in the life of Bertrand Russell. In his Bertrand Russell and Gamel biography of Russell Mr. Ronald Clark says that there is some reason to believe that Russell wished to marry Gamel-and may have proposed Woolsey marriage to her. 2 Clark quotes a letter from Gerald Brenan in support of this suggestion, and Mr. Brenan has written in similar terms to me. It is certain that Russell felt very deeply about Gamel, as his own letters to her by Kenneth Hopkins testify, and I shall discuss this more fully later. But first, Gerald Brenan. He was born at Malta on 7 April 1894, and was thus almost twenty-two years younger than Russell. His father was a subaltern in the British Army who advanced to the rank of major at the time ofhis retirement. Gerald and his father waged a running battle over [F]OR PART OF another summer [I] took the Gerald Brenans' house near the years, and Russell more than once remarks in his letters how much he Malaga. 1 had not known either of the Brenans before this and 1 found them enjoys Gerald's account of his father and their differences, which were interesting and delightful. -
Powys Notes 14.1&2 2002
The Powys Society of North America Powys Notes , Volume 14, Numbers 1 and 2 © 2002 The Powys Society of North America. Quotations from the works of John Cowper Powys are used by kind permission of Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, those from T. F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys used by kind permission of Laurence Pollinger Limited, on behalf of the respective Estates of these Authors. Cover photo of Hof Maran, courtesy of Peter Foss, © Peter Foss 2002. l Powys Notes The semiannual journaLand newsletter of the Powys Society of North America Editor Nicholas Birns New School University Associate Editor Michael Ballin Wilfrid Laurier University Editorial Board Constance Harsh Colgate University Ben Jones Morine Krissd6ttir Carleton University University of Guelph Robert Caserio Charles Lock Temple University University of Copenhagen Richard Maxwell Valparaiso University Subscriptions (one year/two issues) Individuals, $15 US, $18 Can, £9 UK Includes membership in PSNA Institutions, $15 US US and overseas; CANADA Nicholas Birns Michael Ballin 205 East Tenth St. Department of English New York, NY 10003 Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 ISSN 1058-7691 Printed in USA 2 I Contents Love and Disappointment: Gamel Woolsey’s unpublished hovel Patterns on the Sand Barbara Ozieblo 5 Novel Personalities: Epistemology and the Aesthetic of Personality in A Glastonbury Romance Brian Glavey 13 Love’s Labour Lost John Cowper Powys’s Phenomenology of Agape Patrick Couch 22 Tackling the Furka Peter Foss 36 Founded in December 1983, the Powys Society of North America seeks to facilitate the study and appreciation of the literary works of the Powys family, especially those of John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), T.F. -
Gamel Woolsey: Thwarted Ambitions1
— 1 — Publié dans la lettre powysienne numéro 5, printemps 2003, voir : http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/LettrePowysienne/number5.htm Gamel Woolsey: Thwarted Ambitions1 Because our dreams were all too strange to share, And a dream must be lonely and must be free.2 LLEWELYN POWYS, like the Spanish philosopher and writer, Miguel de Unamuno, believed in the continuity that his seed, successfully brought to life, would assure him. But the women he loved, for one reason or another, were unable to conceive, or bring a pregnancy to term. Gamel Woolsey (1895- 1968) was the last of these women, and both her writing and her story were silenced while she was still alive. Malcolm Elwin, in his biography of Llewelyn Powys, heeded Alyse Gregory’s request to eliminate all reference to Woolsey, not for her sake, but for that of her friend3. Woolsey was by then married to Gerald Brenan, who, although he declared repeatedly that he was not jealous of Powys, would not have relished finding his wife’s story in print. Since then, Brenan himself, in Personal Record, gave the basic story, and later biographers of the Powys 1 The author would like to thank the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale (BRBM), and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (HRC), for Fellowships which enabled her to consult their collections related to Gamel Woolsey; thanks also to Margaret Tenney, of Ashley Hall, for information on Gamel Woolsey’s school days. 2 Gamel Woolsey, The Collected Poems, ed. Kenneth Hopkins, Intro. Glen Cavaliero, Warren House Press, 1984, p.34. -
I . 12, No. 2 Index to Volumes 6-12
SCR 12.2 Digital Facsimile The I.12, No. 2 Index to volumes 6-12 Clemson University Digital Press SCR 12.2 Digital Facsimile Thc South Carolina Review EDITORS Ilici!;u.d 1. C.~ll~<~un.Robert IY. Hill Frank I)n!.. 3lrrr1ni.ir1~Ellitor a~iclBook Reoieru E(1itor 10 (;!!Ilt~dcc. I'rlitorirrl Assi.vtant TIIE SOlJ'l'll HI!I is !~rlblishcd in Fall and Sp~it~fihy Ll~e Call~prof Lihvr;ll 1 st C ! it \\a5 founded l,y Fum~;mUniversity, whrrc it \\,as p~~l~lirl~~ilfii>x:l \t.\i-:.',. r. Vi"'. until Junc, 1973. THE SOIITA CAROl.l\\ ET-\!!\V i. .n,!.,\;.:! in ltzder of American Periodical Vr<r.<r,,~lnwriran ilriii~ori!f.r, in '. 7. .;: i :..I!. r Pi,rin<licnl Firti~w~. Tllr editors solicit I.I-. wholnrl) :tie criticism. IIIV I_<li!<lrs.THE SOUTH I Vni\srci!y, Clemsan, S. C. 0'1(531. 'rhv?- 51~1~111~11, rrtirlrs shrnilcl conform to the \II..\ st\lr. S!:!. ' :,ncI .%!lX~lSt. siti1 1 ! \ ! . ' f' . '. ''!"I ., !,,,r. \?.OD for two years. 0;ii. ,T . -,... -. - , , . \ Iill,itt,~! nm,lbvr of IXIC~iss~trs ~tr,, :3~,~2!,,1,1~. -:cw' .:.. l'l,r cowr photo\ sI,o\r. Gamrl \1'~l\r,~actins in A Alid.s~rmmer Night's Dream at \\'oodstock, \en Yark ,i,r~llcr left, and Garnel \Voalrey in Charleston, Suuth Carolina in 1919 (loraer rigizt~ THE SOClTll CAROLINA REVIEIV S~nrzro,N~un~ax IIu~nn~n EIGHTY COPYRIGIIT 1980 RY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY CLEMSON. -
Testimonios Etnográficos En Death's Other Kingdom (El Otro Reino De La Muerte/Málaga En Llamas) De Gamel Woolsey”
Revista Surco Sur Volume 4 Issue 6 Article 13 1-31-2014 “Testimonios etnográficos en Death's Other Kingdom (El Otro Reino de la Muerte/Málaga en Llamas) de Gamel Woolsey” Juan Antonio Perles Rochel Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/surcosur Recommended Citation Perles Rochel, Juan Antonio. 2014. “Testimonios etnográficos en Death's Other Kingdom (El Otro Reino de la Muerte/Málaga en Llamas) de Gamel Woolsey”. Revista Surco Sur, Vol. 4: Iss. 6, 38-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-5231.4.6.12 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/surcosur/vol4/iss6/13 This NUBES DE PLATA is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Revista Surco Sur by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Juan Antonio Perles Rochel Testimonios etnográficos en Death’s Other Kingdom (El Otro Reino de la Muerte/Málaga en Llamas) de Gamel Woolsey Gamel Woolsey, (1895-1968) no vivió en la Málaga de hotelera y turística que se desarrolló a partir de la década de los sesenta. Esta estadounidense nacida en Aiken (Carolina del Sur) a finales del siglo XIX se trasladó a Málaga, más concretamente a la localidad vecina de Churriana, a principios de los años treinta junto con Gerald Brenan, el eminente escritor y cronista de la cultura y la historia de España y conocido por obras tales como The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War o The Face of Spain.