E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933)
Autor de The City of Beautiful Nonsense
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Image from Summer 1917, and other verses (1917) by E. Temple Thurston
Obras de E. Temple Thurston
Mr. Bottleby Does Something 3 copias
"David & Jonathan," 2 copias
Mirage 2 copias
Jane Carroll 2 copias
Coins by E. Thurston (1888) 1 copia
Richard Furlong 1 copia
Portrait Of A Spy 1 copia
Summer 1917 and Other Poems 1 copia
The Greatest Wish in the World 1 copia
Portrait of a Spy 1 copia
The Realist And Other Stories 1 copia
The five-barred gate 1 copia
The patchwork papers 1 copia
The Rossetti And Other Tales 1 copia
Mirage 1 copia
The Realist 1 copia
The green bough, 1 copia
The evolution of Katherine 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Temple Thurston, Ernest
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1879
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1933
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Halesworth, Suffolk, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Maida Vale, London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Halesworth, Suffolk, England, UK (birth)
Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Maida Vale, London, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- poet
playwright
author - Relaciones
- Thurston, Katherine Cecil (wife|divorced)
Miembros
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 39
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 111
- Popularidad
- #175,484
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 22
- Favorito
- 2
Temple Thurston was a moderately successful Edwardian novelist and playwright, born in Suffolk but spending much of his early life in Ireland. At the time of writing this, he had just been divorced from his first wife, the bestselling Irish novelist Katherine Cecil Thurston (she was to die in slightly mysterious circumstances later in 1911).
The "Flower of Gloster" is really one of those books that only became known because of someone else who read it quite a bit later, in this case the campaigner and industrial historian L T C Rolt, whose 1944 book Narrow boat launched the craze for recreational canal cruising in Britain. Writing about his time living on a converted canal barge in the thirties, Rolt credits Thurston with being the first person to notice the canals as something other than a rather outdated system for transporting cargo very slowly around the country. Compared to Rolt, Thurston's interest in the canals themselves and the people who live and work on them is fairly superficial: he's more interested in the way they act as a back door to rural England. He turns back in horror on the approach to Birmingham, where Rolt goes into lyrical ecstasies about the industrial heritage of the region and its importance to Britain's development.
Inevitably, expert canal historians have taken Thurston's book apart and concluded that he couldn't have made the journey described there in one go, and that the book is most likely a composite of several separate canal trips. But it is very interesting, especially the part about the Golden Valley and the Thames and Severn Canal, because that closed to navigation shortly after the First World War. (There are projects to restore it, and some parts have recently been reopened.)
The other association the book has in many people's minds is the 1967 ITV children's drama serial called The "Flower of Gloster", which actually had almost nothing in common with Thurston's book except that the plot centred around a journey in a horse-drawn narrow boat. I remember enjoying it, but I'm sure I didn't see it the first time it was broadcast, because that was before we got a TV...… (más)