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Author Garrett, George, 1896-1966, author.

Title Ten years on the parish : the autobiography and letters of George Garrett / edited by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, Andrew Davies
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 70
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Frank Cottrell-Boyce; Frontispiece; Introduction to Ten Years On The Parish; Notes on the Text; Autobiography from Ten Years On The Parish; Ten Years On The Parish, George Garrett; Dear Garrett: An introduction to the Garrettâ#x80;#x93;Lehmann Letters; Letters between George Garrett and John Lehmann; Additional information; Index; Illustrations
Summary George Garrett (1896-1966) was a Merchant Seaman, writer, playwright and radical activist. His autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, written in the late 1930s, is published here together with a series of letters between Garrett and New Writing editor John Lehmann, which reveal a unique insight into the relationship between a working-class writer and his editor
Notes List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForeword by Frank Cottrell-Boyce FrontispieceIntroduction to Ten Years On The Parish by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey and Andrew DaviesNotes on the TextTen years On The Parish, George GarrettIntroduction to the Garrett/Lehmann Letters by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey and Andrew DaviesLetters between George Garrett and John LehmannIndex
Subject Garrett, George, 1896-1966.
Garrett, George, 1896-1966 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Lehmann, John, 1907-1987 fast
Subject Authors, English -- Biography.
Political activists -- Great Britain -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political activists
Authors, English
Labor leaders
Merchant mariners
Social conditions
England -- Liverpool
Great Britain
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Morris, Mike (Creative writer), editor.
Wailey, Tony, editor
Davies, Andrew, editor
ISBN 9781786948304
1786948303