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Author Welch, Denton, author

Title Good night, beloved comrade : the letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver / edited and with an introduction by Daniel J. Murtaugh
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
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Series Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies
Living out.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Policy -- Introduction -- The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver -- Notes -- References
Summary Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much praised by critics and literati in England and has since inspired creative artists from William S. Burroughs to John Waters. His achievements were all the more remarkable because he suffered from debilitating spinal and pelvic injuries incurred in a bicycle accident at age eighteen. Though German bombs were ravaging Britain, Welch wrote in his published work about the idyllic landscapes and local people h
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Subject Welch, Denton -- Correspondence
Oliver, Eric, 1914-1995 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Oliver, Eric, 1914-1995 fast
Welch, Denton fast
Subject Gay authors -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Gay artists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Gay authors -- Great Britain -- Biography
Gay artists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Gay couples -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Authors, English -- Correspondence -- 20th century
Artists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Authors, English -- Biography -- 20th century
Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Accident victims -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Accident victims -- Great Britain -- Biography
Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Agricultural laborers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Accident victims
Agricultural laborers
Artists
Authors, English
Conscientious objectors
Gay artists
Gay authors
Gay couples
Great Britain
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal correspondence
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Murtaugh, Daniel J., editor, writer of introduction
ISBN 9780299310134
0299310132
Other Titles Correspondence. Selections