Richard le gallienne biography definition

Richard Le Gallienne

British writer

Richard Le Gallienne

Born

Richard Thomas Gallienne


()20 January

Liverpool, England

Died15 September () (aged&#;81)

Menton, France

Burial placeMenton, France
Occupation(s)Poet, author
Years&#;active–
Known&#;forThe Yellow Book (–)
The Quest of the Golden Girl ()
MovementRomantic Poetry
Spouses

Mildred Lee

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Julie Nørregaard

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Irma Hinton

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PartnerOscar Wilde
RelativesHesper Joyce Hutchinson (née Le Gallienne) (daughter)
Eva Le Gallienne (daughter)
Gwen Le Gallienne (step-daughter)

Richard Le Gallienne (20 January – 15 September ) was an English author and poet.

The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (–) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (–).

Life and career

Richard Thomas Gallienne was born at West Derby, Liverpool, England, eldest son of Jean ("John") Gallienne (), manager of the Birkenhead Brewery, and his wife Jane (), née Smith.[1] He attended the (then) all boys public school Liverpool College.

After leaving school he changed his name to Le&#;Gallienne and started work in an accountant's office in London. In , his father took him to a lecture by Oscar Wilde in Birkenhead.[2] He soon abandoned this job to become a professional writer with ambitions of being a poet.

Richard le gallienne biography definition wikipedia View all related items in Oxford Reference ». Tools Tools. Johnson, and others. Le Gallienne and Wilde continued an intimate correspondence after the end of the affair.

His book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in , and in he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. In the summer of he met Wilde, and the two had a brief affair. Le Gallienne and Wilde continued an intimate correspondence after the end of the affair.[2] Directly following this affair, Gallienne stayed with Joseph Gleeson White and his wife in Christchurch, Hampshire.[3]

He joined the staff of the newspaper The Star in and wrote for various papers under the name Logroller.[4] He contributed to The Yellow Book, and associated with the Rhymers' Club.

His first wife, Mildred Lee, and their second daughter, Maria, died in during childbirth, leaving behind Richard and their daughter Hesper Joyce. After Mildred's death he carried with him at all times, including while married to his second wife, an urn containing Mildred's ashes. Rupert Brooke, who met Le Gallienne in aboard a ship bound for the United States but did not warm to him, wrote a short poem "For Mildred's Urn" satirising this behaviour.[5][6]

In he married the Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard.

She became stepmother to Hesper, and their daughter Eva was born 11 January In and , he was a writer for The Rambler, a magazine produced by Herbert Vivian[7] intended to be a revival of Samuel Johnson's periodical of the same name.[8]

In Nørregaard left Richard, taking both of his daughters to live in Paris.

Nørregaard later sent Hesper to live with her paternal grandparents in an affluent part of London while Eva remained with her mother. Julie later cited his inability to provide a stable home or pay his debts, alcoholism, and womanising as grounds for divorce.

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Their daughter Eva would grow up to take on some of her father's negative traits, including womanising and heavy drinking.[9]

Le Gallienne subsequently became a resident of the United States. He has been credited with the translation from the Danish of Peter Nansen's Love's Trilogy,[4] but most sources and the book itself attribute it to Julie.

They were divorced in June On 27 October , he married Mrs.&#;Irma Perry (née Hinton), whose previous marriage to her first cousin, the painter and sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, had been dissolved in [10] Le Gallienne and Irma had known each other for some time and had jointly published an article as early as [11] Irma's daughter Gwendolyn Hinton Perry subsequently called herself "Gwen Le Gallienne" but was almost certainly not his natural daughter, having been born circa

From the late s, Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Paris, where Gwen was by then an established figure in the expatriate bohème[12] and where he wrote a regular newspaper column.[9]

Le Gallienne lived in Menton on the French Riviera during the s.[13] During the Second World War he was prevented from returning to his Menton home and lived in Monaco for the rest of the war.[13] His house in Menton was occupied by German troops and his library was nearly sent back to Germany as bounty.

Le Gallienne appealed to a German officer in Monaco, who allowed him to return to Menton to collect his books.[13] During the war Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities and, with no income, once collapsed in the street owing to hunger.[13]

In later times he knew Llewelyn Powys and John Cowper Powys.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest the stress was "on the last syllable: le gal-i-enn'. As a rule I hear it pronounced as if it were spelled 'gallion,' which, of course, is wrong." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, )

A number of his works are now available online.

He also wrote the foreword to "The Days I Knew" by Lillie Langtry , George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill New York.

Le Gallienne is buried in Menton in a grave whose lease (license No. / B Extension of the Trabuquet Cemetery) does not expire until

Exhibitions

In an exhibition on the life and works of Richard Le Gallienne was held at the central library in his home city of Liverpool, England.

Entitled "Richard Le Gallienne: Liverpool's Wild(e) Poet", it featured his affair with Oscar Wilde, his famous actress daughter Eva Le Gallienne and his personal ties to the city. The exhibition ran for six weeks between August and October , and a talk about him was held at the Victorian Literary Symposium during Liverpool's Literary festival the same year.

Works

  • My Ladies' Sonnets and Other Vain and Amatorious Verses ()
  • Volumes in Folio () poems
  • George Meredith: Some Characteristics ()
  • The Student and the Body Snatcher and Other Trifles with Robinson K. Leather ()
  • The Book-Bills of Narcissus ()
  • English Poems ()
  • The Religion of a Literary Man ()
  • Liber Amoris or the New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt () introduction
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy and Other Poems ()
  • The Quest of the Golden Girl () novel
  • Prose Fancies ()
  • Retrospective Reviews ()
  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam () translation
  • If I Were God ()
  • The Romance of Zion Chapel ()
  • In Praise of Bishop Valentine ()
  • Young Lives ()
  • Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies ()
  • The Worshipper of the Image ()
  • Travels in England ()
  • The Love Letters of the King, or The Life Romantic ()
  • An Old Country House ()
  • Odes from the Divan of Hafiz () translation
  • Old Love Stories Retold ()
  • Painted Shadows ()
  • Romances of Old France ()
  • Little Dinners with the Sphinx and other Prose Fancies ()
  • Omar Repentant ()
  • Wagner's Tristan and Isolde () translation
  • Orestes () Verse Drama
  • Attitudes and Avowals () essays
  • October Vagabonds ()
  • New Poems ()
  • The Loves of the Poets ()
  • The Maker of Rainbows and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables ()
  • The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems ()
  • The Highway to Happiness ()
  • Vanishing Roads and Other Essays ()
  • The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time ()
  • The Chain Invisible ()
  • Pieces of Eight ()
  • The Junk-Man and Other Poems ()
  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys () editor
  • A Jongleur Strayed () poems
  • Woodstock: An Essay ()
  • The Romantic '90s () memoirs
  • The Romance of Perfume ()
  • There Was a Ship ()
  • From a Paris Garret () memoirs

Notes

  1. ^"Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas (–), poet and essayist".

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  2. ^ abMcKenna, Neil (5 March ). The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Basic Books. ISBN&#;.
  3. ^McKenna, Neil (5 March ).

    The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Basic Books. ISBN&#;.

  4. ^ ab&#;One or more of the preceding sentences&#;incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:&#;Chisholm, Hugh, ed. ().

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  5. ^Nigel Jones ().

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  6. ^Mike Read, Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke, p.
  7. ^"The New "Rambler"". The Saturday Review. 20 March p.&#;
  8. ^Courtney, William Prideaux (). A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson.

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  14. ^ abArlen J. Hansen (4 March ). Expatriate Paris: A cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the s. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN&#;., entry for 89 Rue de Vaugirard
  15. ^"RICHARD LE GALLIENNE WEDS P. - oet Married to Mrs.

    Irma Perry, Divorcee - H - s '/'bird Marriage, - Marriage Announcement - ". The New York Times. 28 October Retrieved 21 January

  16. ^""The Laurel of Gossip" by Richard Le Gallienne and Irma Perry, The Smart Set, February ".
  17. ^See e.g. Rachel Hope Cleves (29 October ). "My generation doesn't eat supper".

    . Retrieved 21 January

  18. ^ abcdTed Jones (15 December ). The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

References

  • The Quest of the Golden Boy:&#;: The Life and Letters of Richard Le Gallienne () Geoffrey Smerdon and Richard Whittington-Egan
  • Richard Le Gallienne: A Centenary Memoir-Anthology () Clarence Decker
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

  • Oscar wilde
  • Richard le gallienne biography definition ap
  • Eva le gallienne

    • (). "Le Gallienne, Richard"&#;. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.&#;16 (11th&#;ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.&#;

  • "Richard Le Gallienne: A Bibliography of Writings About Him" () Wendell Harris and Rebecca Larsen, English Literature in Transition (–), vol. 19, no. 2 (): –
  • "Decadence and the Major Poetical Works of Richard Le Gallienne" () Maria F.

    Gonzalez, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Miami

  • "Le Gallienne's Paraphrase and the limits of translation" () Adam Talib in FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect, edited by Adrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H. Martin and Sandra Mason, London: Anthem Press , pp.&#;–
  • M.G.H.

    Pittock, "Richard Thomas Le Gallienne", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (c) Oxford University Press –

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