George and Kittie Calderon 1905
George Calderon, 1912
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Captain of the 11
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
George Calderon c.1901
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Monthly Archives: November 2016
‘The Long Shadow’, War Poetry, and Commemoration
Faithful followers of this blog will recall my account on 16 December 2015 of Professor David Reynolds’s public lecture ‘Making Peace with the Great War: Centenary Reflections’. I have now read the book behind the lecture (see above) and … Continue reading
Posted in Heroism and Adventure, Modern parallels, Personal commentary
Tagged Adrian Gregory, atrocities, Belgium, Brexit, British Expeditionary Force, commemoration, comments, concentration camps, Damian Grant, David Reynolds, EU, Forester's House, General French, General Kitchener, Isaac Rosenberg, La Maison Forestière, Pals battalions, propaganda, Siegfried Sassoon, The Great War, The Holocaust, The Long Shadow, Thiepval, Treaty of Versailles, War Poets, Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen Association (France), World War I, Ypres
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A letter to the ‘Manchester Guardian’, 12 May 1919
Sir, — The recent notice in the “Times” of George Calderon’s death in battle on Gallipoli tells his friends that they may hope no longer. To us the loss is inexpressible. That which the theatre has suffered cannot, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian English, Edwardian literature, Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary
Tagged Annie Horniman, comments, Dardanelles, Gaiety Theatre Manchester, Gallipoli, George Calderon, Manchester Guardian, Manchester Repertory Company, military interpreters, obituaries, Percy Lubbock, Royal Horse Guards, The Blues, The Great War, The Times, Third Battle of Krithia, William Caine, World War I, Ypres
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Armistice Day, 1937
The first national two-minute silence was held on Armistice Day 1919. In 1945 it was transferred to the nearest Remembrance Sunday, commemorating the fallen of both world wars. After a campaign mounted by the British Legion, in 1995 the two-minute … Continue reading
Posted in Edwardian character, Edwardian marriage, Heroism and Adventure, Modern parallels
Tagged Armistice Day, biographies, biography, British Legion, commemoration, George Calderon, Kennington, Kittie Calderon, Remembrance Sunday, The Great War, two-minute silence, White Raven, World War I
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Guest post: Damian Grant, ‘Wilfred Owen commemorated in France’
WILFRED OWEN AT ORS We have our own poet, Wilfred Owen, here in the village of Ors in northern France. The village lives along the slow canal tucked under Bois l’Evêque; the railway (steel scorning water) goes for … Continue reading
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Tagged Artconnexion, Bois l'Evêque, Brexit, Damian Grant, Forester's House, Frédéric Mitterand, Jacky Duminy, Kenneth Branagh, La Maison Forestière, Manchesters, Ors, Peter Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Simon Patterson, Stephen Macdonald, Susan Owen, Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen Association (France), Xavier Hanotte
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‘…you may touch them not.’
Over the last two years, I have been asked why I chose Wilfred Owen’s line ‘Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not’ as the epigraph to Calderonia; why I am apparently fond of the poem; whether I … Continue reading
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Tagged agapē, camaraderie, comments, erotic love, Georg Trakl, George Calderon, Greater Love, Hölderlin, intimacy, Ivor Gurney, Jesus Christ, Laurence Binyon, Mary Magdalene, Platonic love, Santanu Das, The Great War, touch, war poetry, War Poets, Wilfred Owen, World War I
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And the asp jumped over the chimney sweeper!
That time of year is approaching again…the time of public readings of verse four of Laurence Binyon’s ‘For the Fallen’. I shall be listening carefully for who says ‘grow-not old’, who ‘grow not-old’, and who indeed ‘not grow old’ (see … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Marvell, aspen, chimney sweeper moth, comments, cows, Cymbeline, dandelions, Dulce et decor est, Experiment with a Hand Lens, For the Fallen, Henry Vaughan, Humpty Dumpty, John Donne, Joseph Brodsky, Laurence Binyon, Leningrad, Looking Back, metrical stress, Michael Alexander, nursery tales, R.F. Langley, Stratford-upon-Avon, syntax, The Apparition, To His Coy Mistress, Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare
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One does the hokey cokey
I said in my post of 6 October (nearly two months ago!) that I was ‘fired up to put the last tittle on my biography by the end of November’, which meant in the first instance writing the Afterword (‘Who … Continue reading →