Frederick William Rolfe - Revision history

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	*Nicholas Crabbe (written 1900-1904, published 1958) tells the story of Rolfe’s first attempts to achieve publication, with starring roles for Henry Harland, John Lane and Grant Richards. In this novel Rolfe has given himself a new fictional name, ‘Nicholas Crabbe,’ and its plot is a blow-by-blow chronicle of events, reproducing many of the publishers’ letters and Rolfe’s replies to them. Nicholas Crabbe is an undistinguished novel, but it is rich in autobiographical detail.		*Nicholas Crabbe (written 1900-1904, published 1958) tells the story of Rolfe’s first attempts to achieve publication, with starring roles for Henry Harland, John Lane and Grant Richards. In this novel Rolfe has given himself a new fictional name, ‘Nicholas Crabbe,’ and its plot is a blow-by-blow chronicle of events, reproducing many of the publishers’ letters and Rolfe’s replies to them. Nicholas Crabbe is an undistinguished novel, but it is rich in autobiographical detail.

	*''The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole'' (written 1910–1913, published 1934) is set in Venice and reintroduces the reader to ‘Nicholas Crabbe.’ It has three interlocking plots: Crabbe’s efforts to get his books published, in the face of obstacles placed in their way by his friends and agents in England; his rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl from the Messina earthquake and employment of her as his assistant and gondolier, dressed in male garments to avoid scandal; and the transcendent beauty of Venice itself and the role it plays in the lives of its votaries. Extracts from the novel’s beautiful descriptions of Venice appear regularly in guidebooks and modern anthologies. Unlike Rolfe’s other novels, this one ends happily, with a lucrative book contract and a declaration of love.<ref>See Andrew Eburne, 'Frederick Rolfe: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole 1908-1912', DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. </ref> "The desire and pursuit of the whole" is according to [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium]]'' the definition of love.		*''The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole'' (written 1910–1913, thought lost, found in publisher Chatto & Windus's safe, published 1934) is set in Venice and reintroduces the reader to ‘Nicholas Crabbe.’ It has three interlocking plots: Crabbe’s efforts to get his books published, in the face of obstacles placed in their way by his friends and agents in England; his rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl from the Messina earthquake and employment of her as his assistant and gondolier, dressed in male garments to avoid scandal; and the transcendent beauty of Venice itself and the role it plays in the lives of its votaries. Extracts from the novel’s beautiful descriptions of Venice appear regularly in guidebooks and modern anthologies. Unlike Rolfe’s other novels, this one ends happily, with a lucrative book contract and a declaration of love.<ref>See Andrew Eburne, 'Frederick Rolfe: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole 1908-1912', DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. </ref> "The desire and pursuit of the whole" is according to [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium]]'' the definition of love.

	In 1912, the year before his death, Rolfe began to write another autobiographical novel, The Freeing of the Soul, or The Seven Degrees (written 1912–1913, published 1995), of which only a few pages have survived.<ref>The five-page fragment is at MS Walpole c.11, and Rolfe’s notes for the novel at MS Walpole c.13, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The full text of the fragment, edited by Andrew Eburne, may be found in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Volume 38 Number 4, 1995, pp.492-495 </ref> Set in the fifth century, the novel was to have as its protagonist a middle-aged Byzantine bishop named Septimius, preoccupied with the likelihood of another of the barbarian attacks which had been terrifying his Venetian flock. The novel was a new departure for Rolfe, as his four previous such autobiographical works had been set in his own time.		In 1912, the year before his death, Rolfe began to write another autobiographical novel, ''The Freeing of the Soul, or, The Seven Degrees'' (written 1912–1913, published 1995), of which only a few pages have survived.<ref>The five-page fragment is at MS Walpole c.11, and Rolfe’s notes for the novel at MS Walpole c.13, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The full text of the fragment, edited by Andrew Eburne, may be found in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Volume 38 Number 4, 1995, pp.492-495 </ref> Set in the fifth century, the novel was to have as its protagonist a middle-aged Byzantine bishop named Septimius, preoccupied with the likelihood of another of the barbarian attacks which had been terrifying his Venetian flock. The novel was a new departure for Rolfe, as his four previous such autobiographical works had been set in his own time.

	===Other writings===		===Other writings===

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	*Woolf, Cecil and Sewell, Brocard (eds). New Quests for Corvo. Icon books, London, 1965.		*Woolf, Cecil and Sewell, Brocard (eds). New Quests for Corvo. Icon books, London, 1965.

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	*Nicholas Crabbe (written 1900-1904, published 1958) tells the story of Rolfe’s first attempts to achieve publication, with starring roles for Henry Harland, John Lane and Grant Richards. In this novel Rolfe has given himself a new fictional name, ‘Nicholas Crabbe,’ and its plot is a blow-by-blow chronicle of events, reproducing many of the publishers’ letters and Rolfe’s replies to them. Nicholas Crabbe is an undistinguished novel, but it is rich in autobiographical detail.		*Nicholas Crabbe (written 1900-1904, published 1958) tells the story of Rolfe’s first attempts to achieve publication, with starring roles for Henry Harland, John Lane and Grant Richards. In this novel Rolfe has given himself a new fictional name, ‘Nicholas Crabbe,’ and its plot is a blow-by-blow chronicle of events, reproducing many of the publishers’ letters and Rolfe’s replies to them. Nicholas Crabbe is an undistinguished novel, but it is rich in autobiographical detail.

	*''The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole'' (written 1910–1913, published 1934) is set in Venice and reintroduces the reader to ‘Nicholas Crabbe.’ It has three interlocking plots: Crabbe’s efforts to get his books published, in the face of obstacles placed in their way by his friends and agents in England; his rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl from the Messina earthquake and employment of her as his assistant and gondolier, dressed in male garments to avoid scandal; and the transcendent beauty of Venice itself and the role it plays in the lives of its votaries. Extracts from the novel’s beautiful descriptions of Venice appear regularly in guidebooks and modern anthologies. Unlike Rolfe’s other novels, this one ends happily, with a lucrative book contract and a declaration of love.<ref>See Andrew Eburne, 'Frederick Rolfe: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole 1908-1912', DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. </ref> "The desire and pursuit of the whole" is according to [[Plato]]'s [[Symposium]] the definition of love.		*''The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole'' (written 1910–1913, published 1934) is set in Venice and reintroduces the reader to ‘Nicholas Crabbe.’ It has three interlocking plots: Crabbe’s efforts to get his books published, in the face of obstacles placed in their way by his friends and agents in England; his rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl from the Messina earthquake and employment of her as his assistant and gondolier, dressed in male garments to avoid scandal; and the transcendent beauty of Venice itself and the role it plays in the lives of its votaries. Extracts from the novel’s beautiful descriptions of Venice appear regularly in guidebooks and modern anthologies. Unlike Rolfe’s other novels, this one ends happily, with a lucrative book contract and a declaration of love.<ref>See Andrew Eburne, 'Frederick Rolfe: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole 1908-1912', DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. </ref> "The desire and pursuit of the whole" is according to [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium]]'' the definition of love.

	In 1912, the year before his death, Rolfe began to write another autobiographical novel, The Freeing of the Soul, or The Seven Degrees (written 1912–1913, published 1995), of which only a few pages have survived.<ref>The five-page fragment is at MS Walpole c.11, and Rolfe’s notes for the novel at MS Walpole c.13, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The full text of the fragment, edited by Andrew Eburne, may be found in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Volume 38 Number 4, 1995, pp.492-495 </ref> Set in the fifth century, the novel was to have as its protagonist a middle-aged Byzantine bishop named Septimius, preoccupied with the likelihood of another of the barbarian attacks which had been terrifying his Venetian flock. The novel was a new departure for Rolfe, as his four previous such autobiographical works had been set in his own time.		In 1912, the year before his death, Rolfe began to write another autobiographical novel, The Freeing of the Soul, or The Seven Degrees (written 1912–1913, published 1995), of which only a few pages have survived.<ref>The five-page fragment is at MS Walpole c.11, and Rolfe’s notes for the novel at MS Walpole c.13, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The full text of the fragment, edited by Andrew Eburne, may be found in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Volume 38 Number 4, 1995, pp.492-495 </ref> Set in the fifth century, the novel was to have as its protagonist a middle-aged Byzantine bishop named Septimius, preoccupied with the likelihood of another of the barbarian attacks which had been terrifying his Venetian flock. The novel was a new departure for Rolfe, as his four previous such autobiographical works had been set in his own time.

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	*Woolf, Cecil and Sewell, Brocard (eds). New Quests for Corvo. Icon books, London, 1965.		*Woolf, Cecil and Sewell, Brocard (eds). New Quests for Corvo. Icon books, London, 1965.

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