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Author Virtue, John

Title Fred Taylor : brother in the shadows / John Virtue
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents I remember many spankings with a flat-backed wooden-handled hairbrush -- Moment you realize that you are enjoying yourself, you feel guilty -- He never seriously bothered or teased me again -- You must be yellow -- I had been desperately lonely -- I am heading towards unhappiness -- There are freaks in every family -- I did not think of falling in love with her -- Party was happy to find a WASP like Fred Taylor -- I am unwilling to exchange my brush for a bayonet -- You must never use my name to further your affairs -- Thinks me a crackpot -- He really didn't like his own children -- During the last fifteen years you have not been self-supporting -- She says that she does not love me -- There will be no more money from me now that you are an avowed Communist -- She genuinely believes in my potential as a painter -- You became for me a surrogate father -- I earned 60 per cent and had an unearned income of 40 per cent -- I'd much prefer to be in Canada -- I have not enjoyed the anonymity I cherished -- I'm going to knock you out -- I do not believe that I constitute any species of threat -- How's the hunting, Fred? -- Fred was the kindest, gentlest, most encouraging, most supportive person -- I am still deeply in love with you -- I'm going to be married very soon -- He'd planned his suicide ever since Hemingway killed himself
Summary John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index
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Subject Taylor, Frederick B., 1906-1987
Taylor, Frederick B., 1906-1987 -- Family
SUBJECT Taylor, Frederick Bourchier. swd
Subject Labor-Progressive Party -- Biography
SUBJECT Labor-Progressive Party fast
Subject Artists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
ART -- General.
Artists
Families
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773575097
077357509X
1282865641
9781282865648
9786612865640
6612865644
0773577572
9780773577572