Robert Liddell

Robert Liddell

John (Jock) Robert Liddell (October 131908July 231992) was a British writer, best known for his criticism of the novel, and for his biography of the poet Cavafy. He was also a novelist, travel writer and poet.

He was educated at Haileybury School and the University of Oxford. In the early 1930s he was a close friend of Barbara Pym, while working in the Bodleian Library. He appears as Dr. Nicholas Parnell, a character in her novel "Some Tame Gazelle".

During World War II he was one of the Cairo poets. After the war he resided in Athens.

Works

*A Treatise on the Novel (1947)
*The Last Enchantments (1949)
*Unreal City (1952)
*Some Principles Of Fiction (1953)
*Aegean Greece (1954)
*The Novels of I Compton-Burnett (1955)
*Byzantium and Istanbul (1956)
*The Morea (1958)
*Old and New Athens by Demetrios Sicilianos (1960) translator
*The Novels of Jane Austen (1963)
*Mainland Greece (1965)
*The Deep End (1968) novel
*Stepsons (1969) novel
*Cavafy (1974) biography
*The Novels of George Eliot (1977)
*Elizabeth & Ivy (1986)
*The Aunts (1987)
*The Abbe Trigrane by Ferdinand Fabre (1988) translator
*Mind at ease: Barbara Pym and her novels (1989)
*Twin Spirits: The Novels of Emily and Anne Brontë (1990)
*Kind Relations (1994)
*The Rivers of Babylon (1995)


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