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[[File:Denton Welch, Self-Portrait.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait]]'''Denton Welch''' (Maurice Denton Welch, 1915–1948) was a painter and writer. | [[File:Denton Welch, Self-Portrait.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait]]'''Denton Welch''' (Maurice Denton Welch, 1915–1948) was a painter and writer. | ||
| − | He was born in Shanghai of Anglo-American parentage. He was sent to England to preparatory school and eventually [[Repton]], where he was wretchedly unhappy.<ref>http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biow2/welch01.html</ref> He ran away at 16, traveling to China once more, before returning to London and enrolling at the Goldsmiths School of | + | He was born in Shanghai of Anglo-American parentage. He was sent to England to preparatory school and eventually [[Repton]], where he was wretchedly unhappy.<ref>http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biow2/welch01.html</ref> He ran away at 16, traveling to China once more, before returning to London and enrolling at the [[Goldsmiths School of Art]]. He intended to be a painter but following a cycling accident aged 20 which left him in severe pain (and eventually led to his early death) he devoted himself mainly to writing. |
He met his companion, Eric Oliver, in November 1943 while he was convalescing. Oliver was a farm-worker living in [[Maidstone]], and was a regular visitor. He acted as nurse for Welch, then his secretary, and finally as his literary executor when Welch died at the age of 33.<ref name=gayfortoday>http://gayfortoday.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/denton-welch.html ''Gay for Today''</ref> | He met his companion, Eric Oliver, in November 1943 while he was convalescing. Oliver was a farm-worker living in [[Maidstone]], and was a regular visitor. He acted as nurse for Welch, then his secretary, and finally as his literary executor when Welch died at the age of 33.<ref name=gayfortoday>http://gayfortoday.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/denton-welch.html ''Gay for Today''</ref> | ||
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:"For his time and place, Welch's novels are surprisingly suffused with homosexuality. His examination of the people around him, very thinly disguised in the novels, and his exploration of his own homosexual feelings and responses to the world show Welch to be a writer of consequence, if an over-looked one."<ref name=gayfortoday /> | :"For his time and place, Welch's novels are surprisingly suffused with homosexuality. His examination of the people around him, very thinly disguised in the novels, and his exploration of his own homosexual feelings and responses to the world show Welch to be a writer of consequence, if an over-looked one."<ref name=gayfortoday /> | ||
| − | His work include ''Maiden Voyage'' (1943), the novel ''In Youth Is Pleasure'' (1944), short stories in ''Brave and Cruel, and Other Stories'' (1949), and the autobiographical ''A Voice Through a Cloud'' (1950). | + | His work include ''Maiden Voyage'' (1943), the novel ''In Youth Is Pleasure'' (1944), short stories in ''Brave and Cruel, and Other Stories'' (1949), and the autobiographical ''A Voice Through a Cloud'' (1950). In 2021 Penguin Classics reissued ''In Youth is Pleasure''. <ref> Bright glimpses of a lost youth : review of ''In Youth is Pleasure'' by Denton Welch (review by John Self) ''The Observer'' 27 June 2021 </ref> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 11:18, 4 July 2021
Denton Welch (Maurice Denton Welch, 1915–1948) was a painter and writer.
He was born in Shanghai of Anglo-American parentage. He was sent to England to preparatory school and eventually Repton, where he was wretchedly unhappy.[1] He ran away at 16, traveling to China once more, before returning to London and enrolling at the Goldsmiths School of Art. He intended to be a painter but following a cycling accident aged 20 which left him in severe pain (and eventually led to his early death) he devoted himself mainly to writing.
He met his companion, Eric Oliver, in November 1943 while he was convalescing. Oliver was a farm-worker living in Maidstone, and was a regular visitor. He acted as nurse for Welch, then his secretary, and finally as his literary executor when Welch died at the age of 33.[2]
- "For his time and place, Welch's novels are surprisingly suffused with homosexuality. His examination of the people around him, very thinly disguised in the novels, and his exploration of his own homosexual feelings and responses to the world show Welch to be a writer of consequence, if an over-looked one."[2]
His work include Maiden Voyage (1943), the novel In Youth Is Pleasure (1944), short stories in Brave and Cruel, and Other Stories (1949), and the autobiographical A Voice Through a Cloud (1950). In 2021 Penguin Classics reissued In Youth is Pleasure. [3]
References
- ↑ http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biow2/welch01.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://gayfortoday.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/denton-welch.html Gay for Today
- ↑ Bright glimpses of a lost youth : review of In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch (review by John Self) The Observer 27 June 2021
