Bookmarked by Wendy W. Fairey

Author:Wendy W. Fairey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

To continue with the casting, I put Freddie, for his part in the concealment, in the role of Gilbert Osmond, though doing so is hardly fair, considering his amiable temperament, intellectual originality, and liberal politics. Freddie resembled Osmond only in his social snobbery and emotional indolence. His letter to me spoke of his regret that Dee’s hostile review of Beloved Infidel had put an end to my mother’s “bringing you to visit me in London but there was nothing I could do about it.” It was Dee who took the initiative to make peace with my mother—Freddie’s letter marveled that they had later become such good friends—and who took the lead in keeping in touch with me. Freddie was passive. He was not a man of deep emotions. There is a chilling passage in John Osborne’s autobiography, describing how Freddie had come to see his ex-girlfriend Jocelyn Richards (then living with Osborne) when he was contemplating marrying Dee:

He had announced that he was contemplating marriage to an American, but was undecided whether the match fulfilled his standards of wisdom and self-esteem. He offered his ex-mistress a two-card choice: he was prepared to marry the American unless Jocelyn should feel impelled to offer herself as an alternative. Anyone less kindly than Jocelyn [opines Osborne] would have kicked this pear-shaped Don Giovanni down the stairs and his cruel presumption. She could find nothing to say except, “But Freddie, it’s too late.”

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