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Muggeridge, Malcolm ___ 1903-1990 ___
British ___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Born in Croydon, London, with an
MP for a father, Muggeridge attended Selwyn College, Cambridge, and then
travelled to India to work as a teacher. In 1927, he returned to England
and married Katherine (Kitty) Dobbs, worked for a few months as a teacher,
and then moved to Egypt where he taught, and where he began writing journalistic
articles. In 1932, he became foreign correspondent for the 'Manchester Guardian'
in Moscow. After witnessing and writing about the Ukrainian famine, Muggeridge
returned to India and became assistant editor for the 'Calcutta Statesman'.
In 1936, his biography of Samuel Butler was published. During the war, he
worked for the Army Intelligence Corps and MI5, serving in Mozambique, Italy
and France, and after the war he was again a foreign correspondent, this
time in Washington for the Daily Telegraph. Thereafter, he became popular
on radio and television, and became a senior editor of the satirical magazine
'Punch'. During the 1960s, Muggeridge became increasingly religious, and
this new focus coloured much of his writing and broadcasting. The British
press christened him 'St Mugg'. Eventually, after interviewing and being
wooed by many senior religious figures, Malcolm (and Kitty) became Roman
Catholics in 1983. In his final years, Muggeridge was outspoken on moral
and ethical issues, opposing birth control, abortion and euthanasia.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1932-1962 ___ political religious
travel people self family Russia India
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Wheaton College:
Archives and Special Collections
Stanford
University, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm
Muggeridge
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. |