The Journals by John Fowles

Author:John Fowles [FOWLES, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781446402603
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2020-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

22 September 1977

I gulp down Edward Deming Andrews’ book on Shaker music;237 when I should be signing. But first things first.

In the afternoon we went for a walk, down and across a footbridge across the river and up through woodlands to a fire-gazebo called Laura’s Tower.

1 ‘Podge’ is Fred Porter, JF’s Marxist friend, whom he first met when they were both students at Oxford. See introduction to The Journals, volume 1, page xiii.

2 Born in August 1965, Jonathan is the son of JF’s sister Hazel and her husband Daniel O’Sullivan.

3 JF’s cousin Jane Richards, who lived in Lyme.

4 JF’s editor at Little, Brown, the publisher of his books in America.

5 Julian Bach, JF’s literary agent in America.

6 Arthur H. Thornhill, sen. (1895–1970), was then chairman of Little, Brown. His son Arthur H. Thornhill, junr., had succeeded him as chief executive and president of the company in 1962.

7 Little, Brown’s head of publicity.

8 Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) was a popular historian. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Guns of August (1962), which chronicled the events that caused the First World War.

9 Arnold Ehrlich (1923–1989) was a contributor to, and later editor of, the American trade magazine Publishers Weekly.

10 John Kohn and Jud Kinberg, the American screenwriter/producers who had produced the film version of JF’s first novel The Collector.

11 Elizabeth’s then fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna Christy, was being brought up by her father Roy Christy, Elizabeth’s first husband, and his new wife Judy (née Boydell).

12 Charlie Greenberg was a Canadian architect who had been a friend of Roy Christy since the early 1950s, when they had taught together at the Kingston College of Art and Architecture.

13 The wife of Ronnie Payne, JF’s friend from Bedford School and Oxford.

14 An idea for a novel to be set in Turkey, which was inspired by JF’s visit to the Cannes Film Festival in May 1965.

15 The publication of The Outsider in 1956, when Wilson was only twenty-one, brought him huge success. But although he was briefly fêted as a leading figure in the ‘Angry Young Men’ generation, his subsequent prolific output of books was largely ignored. He left London in 1957 to live with his wife in Cornwall.

16 The idea for this unrealized novel originated in JF’s experiences in the South of France during the summer of 1948, when he was staying in the Mediterranean port town of Collioure. See introduction to The Journals, volume 1, pages xiii–xiv.

17 The film-star Anthony Quinn, who had two years previously appeared in the title role of Zorba the Greek.

18 George Boxall, JF’s accountant.

19 i.e., Eileen Porter, wife of Podge Porter.

20 The Porters’ daughter.

21 The Loveridges were John and Jean Loveridge, who lived at Bindon Manor near Axmouth. In 1954 John Loveridge had hired JF to teach at his family’s language and secretarial college St Godric’s in Hampstead, London. JF continued to work there until the publication of The Collector in 1963.

22 Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) was a portraitist who had painted some of the leading figures of the Elizabethan age, including Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.

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