A Flag on the Island is dedicated to which British literary editor?
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A Flag on the Island A Flag on the Island is a collection of short stories written by V.S. Naipaul, and first published by André Deutsch in 1967. It includes the title novella, "A Flag on the Island," outtakes from previous novels such as "The Enemy", from "Miguel Street", and pieces published in periodicals in England or the United States. The book is dedicated to Diana Athill.
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Diana Athill Diana Athill {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OBE', '4': "} (born 21 December 1917) is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
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Frederick Marryat Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 17929 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel "Mr Midshipman Easy" (1836), for his children's novel "The Children of the New Forest" (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code.
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William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as "ploomer") (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor.
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Frances Spalding Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950) is a British art historian and writer and the former Editor of "The Burlington Magazine".
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Geoffrey Grigson Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine "New Verse", and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry as well as compiling numerous anthologies, among other published works on subjects including art, travel and the countryside. At various times he was involved in teaching, journalism and broadcasting. Fiercely combative, he made many literary enemies for his dogmatic views.
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Charles Frederic Moberly Bell Charles Frederic Moberly Bell (2 April 1847 in Alexandria – 5 April 1911 in London) was a prominent British journalist and newspaper editor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Laurence Whistler Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler, CBE (born 21 January 1912 – died 19 December 2000, always referred to as Laurence Whistler) was a British poet and artist.
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Christian Remembrancer The Christian Remembrancer was a high-church periodical which ran from 1819 to 1868. Joshua Watson and Henry Handley Norris, the owners of the "British Critic", encouraged Frederick Iremonger to start the "Christian Remembrancer" as a monthly publication in 1819. Renn Dickson Hampden was briefly editor, 1825-6. In 1841 Francis Garden (1810–84) and William Scott (1813–72) became co-editors. In 1844 the magazine was relaunched as a quarterly, with James Mozley briefly succeeding Garden and acting as an editor until 1855.
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George Métivier George Métivier (29 January 1790 – 23 March 1881) was a Guernsey poet dubbed the "Guernsey Burns", and sometimes considered the island's national poet. He wrote in Guernésiais, which is the indigenous language of the island. Among his poetical works are "Rimes Guernesiaises" published in 1831. Métivier blended together local place-names, bird and animal names, traditional sayings and orally transmitted fragments of medieval poetry to create themes.
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Desmond MacCarthy Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy FRSL (20 May 1877–7 June 1952) was a British literary critic and journalist; he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896.
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Richard Noverre Bacon Richard Noverre Bacon (1798 – 1884) was an English newspaper editor, known as a writer on agriculture.
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Award of the George Cross to Malta The George Cross was awarded to the island of Malta by King George VI in a letter to the island's Governor, Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie, so as to "bear witness to the heroism and devotion of its people" during the great siege they underwent in the early part of World War II. Italy and Germany besieged Malta, then a British colony, from 1940 to 1942. The George Cross is woven into the Flag of Malta and can be seen wherever the flag is flown.
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Janet Adam Smith Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering.
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John Stephens (editor) John Stephens (30 September 1806 – 28 November 1850) was a writer, polemicist and editor in England who became an editor and newspaper owner in the early days of South Australia.
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Barzillai Quaife Barzillai Quaife (29 December 1798 – 3 March 1873) was an English-born editor, Congregational and Presbyterian minister, bookseller and teacher active in both Australia and New Zealand. He was a fierce advocate for the rights of the Māori.
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Marianne Moore Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
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Ian McKay (writer) Ian McKay (born 1962) is an English environmental writer, critic, publisher, and translator. A former editor of "Contemporary Art" magazine, and the founder-editor of "The Journal of Geography and Urban Research", throughout the 1990s he was best-known for his writings on the arts of Eastern Europe, being cited as the first British art critic to emphasize the negative impact of the western art market in that region. Throughout the 1990s and early-2000s, he was a contributor to a wide range of art journals, as well as writing on subjects relating to photography, cinema, and music. Since 2007 his publishing activities have mainly centred on UK Rural Affairs, and the environment however. Though periodically he continues to publish works of art criticism, his most recent publications concern social justice in rural Britain, as well as environmental conservation in the wider European sphere. He has also worked as an academic in several UK universities.
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Alan Payan Pryce-Jones Lt-Col. Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2000) was a British book critic, author, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of "The Times Literary Supplement" from 1948 to 1959.
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Frederick A. Eaton Sir Frederick Alexis Eaton (20 January 1838 – 10 September 1913) was a British writer and editor. He was Secretary and chronicler of the Royal Academy, and a medievalist.
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H. J. C. Grierson Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866–1960) often referred to as Herbert J. C. Grierson, was a Scottish literary scholar editor and literary critic.
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George Birkbeck Norman Hill George Birkbeck Norman Hill (7 June 1835 – 24 February 1903) was an English editor and author.