Robin fedden biography

  • Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, CBE was an English writer, diplomat and mountaineer.
  • Legal name: Fedden, Henry Robin Romilly; Birthdate: 1908-11-25; Date of death: 1977-03-20; Gender: male; Nationality: UK; Places of residence: Chantemesle.
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    Legal name
    Fedden, Henry Robin Romilly
    Birthdate
    1908-11-25
    Date of death
    1977-03-20
    Gender
    male
    Nationality
    UK
    Places of residence
    Chantemesle, Seine-et-Oise, France
    Education
    Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol, England
    University of Cambridge (Magdelene College)
    Occupations
    writer
    diplomat
    mountaineer
    Deputy Director General, National Trust
    Relationships
    Fedden, Romilly (father)
    Fedden, Katharine Waldo (mother)
    Awards and honors
    Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1973)

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    Robin Fedden

    Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, CBE (26 November 1908 – 20 March 1977)[1] was an English writer, diplomat and mountaineer. He was the son of artist Romilly Fedden and novelist Katherine Waldo Douglas.[2]

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    Raised mostly in Chantemesle, Seine-et-Oise, France, Fedden attended Clifton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, at the same time as the actor Michael Redgrave.[1] During their undergraduate years he and Redgrave, alongside the art historian Anthony Blunt, edited an avant-garde literary magazine called The Venture, which published work by Louis MacNeice, Julian Bell and John Lehmann.[3] Upon going down from Cambridge, Fedden served as a diplomat in Athens and taught English literature at Cairo University. He was one of the Cairo poets, and co-edited the literary journal Personal Landscape with Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer. After World War II, he worked for the National Trust, rising to the post

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    Chantemesle

    This lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine was originally published in 1964. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind fryst vatten a character in its own right, we meet blind Battouflet, the singing hermit of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, the author's first flickvän who lives in a chateau in the heart of the forest, and a desiccated and disturbing spinster, Mlle. Firman. Fedden writes with preternatural tydlig förståelse, taking the reader with him into a long-forgotten yet echoingly familiar world. When Fedden finds han själv expelled from this realm by his emerging sexuality, he leaves us reeling with nostalgia for that timeless sense of the present that is the magic of childhood.