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Belloc, Hilaire ___ 1870-1953 ___ British
(born France) ___ writer, politician
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Belloc, the son of a French barrister,
was born near Paris in 1870, but moved to England when he was two. He served
in the French Army, and then studied at Balliol College, Oxford. After a
lecture tour in the US, he returned to England and became naturalised as
a British subject. He wrote for various magazines, eventually becoming the
literary editor of the 'Morning Post'. Through the Fabian Society, he became
friends with George Bernard Shaw and H G Wells. In 1906 Belloc bought a
small estate in Shipley, Sussex, and, soon after, was elected to the House
of Commons. He lost his seat in 1910, and then returned to journalism, writing,
like his sister Marie, for the 'Pall Mall Gazette', among others. In 1911,
he published 'The Eye Witness', with contributions from Shaw, Wells, Chesterton
and others, which sought to expose examples of political corruption. During
this time, Belloc also published a range of novels, including 'A Change
in the Cabinet' and history books such as 'The French Revolution'. By the
start of the war, he had moved his political allegiances to the right, and
was recruited to help in the War Propaganda Bureau. Belloc also became the
military correspondent for the successful magazine 'Land and Water'. His
son, Louis, was killed on a bombing raid towards the end of the war. In
the 1920s and 1930s, Belloc wrote on religious and historical subjects,
producing biographies of Cromwell, Richelieu and Wolsey among others. The
last decade of his life was beset with illness. Belloc kept a diary, with
entries and sketches from 1889 to 1912, but - apparently - it has not been
published.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1889-1912 ___ n/a
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
University
of Notre Dame Archives
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |