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	Papers of John Gawsworth
		John Gawsworth was born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong in London in 1912, the younger of the two sons of Frederick Armstrong, a colonial broker, and his wife Ethel Jackson.
		Gawsworth was proud both of his father’s Scottish descent and of his mother’s ancestor Mary Fytton, supposedly Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, from whose home, Gawsworth in Cheshire, he derived his pen name.
		From Shiel Gawsworth inherited the throne of the kingdom of Redonda, an uninhabited island near Montserrat, styling himself King Juan I. Gawsworth joined the RAF in 1941 and served on the Algerian, Tunisian, Sicilian and Italian campaigns.
	www.rdg.ac.uk /library/colls/special/gawsworth.html (565 words)

	UI Libraries - Books at Iowa - Eng on Gawsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gawsworth later claimed to have met Miss Sitwell at an antivivisectionist meeting, where medical students started a fight and the two of them were shoved jointly out the back door; she invited him for tea, and for a time he was her "bun boy" at weekly gatherings.
		Gawsworth was editing collections of individual poets as well, such as Havelock Ellis, nineties decadent Theodore Wratislaw, his idol and Redonda predecessor M. Shiel, and his Edwardian favorite, Richard Middleton.
		In Cairo, Gawsworth was one of the British "Salamander" war poets; in Italy he wrote a poem in the room where Keats died, had his verses translated, visited Croce and gave him food from his knapsack, and at some ceremony had himself garlanded with flowers.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/bai/eng.htm (4871 words)

	John Gawsworth [ King of Redonda ]
		Gawsworth inherited the fantasy kingdom from the writer Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-19479, who emigrated to Britain in 1885 from the Leeward Islands where he had been crowned King Felipe of Redonda, a mile-long volcanic rock, on his fifteenth birthday.
		Gawsworth’s solid neo-Georgian verse, continuing the romantic lyric tradition of Ernest Dowson and Lionel Johnson, was the antithesis of the stark, socialistic modernism of the 1930s.
		In 1960 Gawsworth is believed to have passed on the kingship to Dominic Behan, brother of Brendan, but the Irish playwright was just one of a number of candidates selected as his heir.
	www.javiermarias.es /REDONDIANA/JohnGawsworth.html (1402 words)

	The Lost Club
		The career of John Gawsworth (1912-70), poet, editor, bibliographer and third King of Redonda, may be viewed as a cautionary tale for Lost Club monographists.
		Gawsworth was a tireless campaigner on behalf of Machen, Shiel, Dowson, Richard Middleton and other of his writer heroes, and spent much time lobbying publishers and the Royal Society of Literature on his mentors' behalf.
		Gawsworth began publishing in his teens as a precocious poet.
	homepages.pavilion.co.uk /users/tartarus/gawsworth.html (1006 words)

	Two Kings of Redonda: M P Shiel and John Gawsworth
		John was correcting galley proofs "with a heavy self-commiserating air" and drinking fl coffee.
		The three of them returned to John's gas-lit attic where the Durrells were shown an already im-pressive collection of those first editions, manuscripts, poets' letters, and literary curiosities by whose sale, with diminishing replacements, he supported himself in alcohol and life's lesser expenses year after year in the postwar decades.
		Gawsworth managed to get Sidgwick and Jackson to publish his collected poems, but it was a swan song rather than a launching pad.
	www.javiermarias.es /5Redonda/twokings.html (2286 words)

	Shiel's Collaborators III: John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong) (1912-1970)
		Since a distant ancestor, Mary Fytton, was identified with Gawsworth Hall in Cheshire (Gawsworth hoped she was the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets, but she wasn't), Armstrong became "John Gawsworth" inviting (perhaps deliberately) permanent confusion with novelist John Gallsworthy.
		Gawsworth also found time to anonymously edit a third anthology in 1936 (was he working in competition with himself?) titled Crimes, Creeps and Thrills, published by E. Samuel.
		The MS never arrived and was presumed lost in the mail, though Shiel wrote Dannay in October 1946 that John Gawsworth had a typescript of the story.
	www.alangullette.com /lit/shiel/essays/shiel_gawsworth.htm (2391 words)

	John Metcalfe Papers, Biographical Sketch
		(William) John "Jack" Metcalfe, born in Heacham, Norfolk, England on October 6, 1891, was a teacher, short story writer, and novelist recognized primarily for his works of science fiction.
		John Metcalfe graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of London in 1913.
		The John Metcalfe papers, along with papers of William Charles Metcalfe and Evelyn Scott, were purchased by the HRHRC in 1966.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/metcalfe.bio.html (600 words)

	Giornale Nuovo: The Kings of Redonda
		John Gawsworth was the pen name used by the poet and editor Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (1912-70).
		Gawsworth had, as a young man, been a tireless supporter of and campaigner for the pre-modernist writers he idolised - notably Shiel, Arthur Machen, Ernest Dowson and Richard Middleton.
		Gawsworth stored them in a tea caddy, and when the poet moved from his Bayswater bedsit in 1968 a friend who was helping brewed up what he thought was tea, but caddy’s contents were actually Shiel’s incinerated remains.
	www.spamula.net /blog/2004/06/the_kings_of_redonda.html (3516 words)

	Kingdom of Redonda - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki
		He requested the title of King from Victoria, Queen of England and she granted it to him as long as there was no revolt against colonial power.
		Gawsworth bestowed the title, and the rights of his and Shiell's work, to Jon Wynne-Tyson.
		John Gawsworth is the pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong.
	micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Kingdom_of_Redonda (488 words)

	Redonda (Antigua and Barbuda)
		John I resigned in 1966 (with effects in 1967) in favour of Arthur John Roberts, but on the death of John I in 1970s the crown was claimed by John Wynne-Tyson (John II).
		In 1984 he was recognized as king by the "noble" Cedric Boston (Cedric I) and after an agreement, in 1989, William Gates acceded to the throne.
		When he died in 1947, the young poet John Gawsworth became Juan I of Redonda and created an "intellectual aristocracy", giving nobless titles to famous artists such as Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Dorothy Sayers and Dirk Bogarde.
	flagspot.net /flags/ag-rd.html (794 words)

	Papers of Thomas Sturge Moore
		John Gawsworth was born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong in London in 1912.
		Gawsworth was himself a prolific poet and gained early recognition, becoming the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, but although his Collected Poems appeared in 1949 and he was an able editor of the Poetry Review from 1948 to 1952, his subsequent career was marred by a prolonged descent into alcoholism.
		There are 33 letters from John Gawsworth to T. Sturge Moore and Marie Sturge Moore, 1938-1947, in the Sturge Moore papers (Boxes 20,43) held in the University of London Library, which may be the other side of the correspondence in this collection
	www.rdg.ac.uk /library/colls/special/moore.html (404 words)

	Links and addresses
		Gawsworth, born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong in London in 1912, was one of Machen’s most devoted disciples, doing much to keep his idol’s name in the public eye during Machen’s last years.
		Gawsworth was a prolific and precocious versifier in the 1930s and was regarded as one of the coming poets of the age, but after the Second World War he descended into alcoholism, his stream of books and pamphlets dried up and he died, aged only 58, in 1970.
		It is a pity that Gawsworth did not take the opportunity to update and revise the biography after Machen’s death, since although it is designed to be read by the Machen enthusiast rather than the general reader, it would certainly have found a publisher in the 1950s or ’60s.
	www.machensoc.demon.co.uk /machlinx.html (2054 words)

	Dark Back Of Time
		While allowing that some fictional elements were borrowed from real life, Marías insists that identifications are misplaced and goes on to describe in hilarious detail how the opposite has also occurred: there are real people who have taken on characteristics from their imagined fictional counterparts.
		John Gawsworth, a minor writer and earlier King of Redonda, provides the core of the second strand, and the third strand concerns aspects of Marías’s own and his family’s history, in particular the death of his mother and of his older brother Julianín, who died at the age of 3½.
		It is not just the randomness of death and life which concern Marías but also the ramifications and alternative possibilities of each moment comprising them, or the dark back of time (the phrase appears in his earlier work; it is adapted from The Tempest).
	www.johnsandoe.com /review_3227.htm (414 words)

	John Gawsworth Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Gawsworth was an energetic literary leader of the second rank.
		Gawsworth yearned to be an immortal English poet but is more remembered today for his Redonda charade and his tireless advocacy of fantasy authors such as Arthur Machen and M. Shiel.
		Gawsworth has rightly been termed the English counterpart of American writer, fantasy editor, and publisher August Derleth.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-gawsworth-dlb (186 words)

	The Redondan Foundation - Brief History of Redonda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (better known by his pseudonym "John Gawsworth") was successful in persuading publishers to reprint some of Shiell's early best-sellers, with resultant royalties for the author.
		However, Gawsworth's talents as a poet and man of letters failed to sustain him in the bleak post-war years, and he gradually fell on evil days, taking odd jobs, suffering from ill-health, and spending much time in the bar of the "Alma" tavern in Westbourne Grove, West London.
		Having disposed of the Title of King to John Roberts three years earlier he left instructions in his Will of April, 1970, for his Literary Estate, together with that of M.P.Shiell, to be administered jointly by two literary friends, Dr. Iain Fletcher of Reading University and Mr.J.Wynne-Tyson of the Centaur Press.
	www.redonda.org /redonda.html (1853 words)

	John Metcalfe Papers, Scope and Contents
		The John Metcalfe collection consists of manuscripts, notebooks, diaries, legal documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks dating from 1846 to 1965.
		His childhood years are represented by his unfinished autobiography, family letters, including letters he wrote as a boy, and a notebook he kept at age nine.
		Manuscripts relating to John Metcalfe can also be found in the HRHRC's Evelyn Scott, W.C. Metcalfe, August Derleth, and Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (John Gawsworth) collections.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/metcalfe.scope.html (296 words)

	The Redondan Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Irrevocable Convenant of 1954 was thus void, and Gawsworth was able to pass the Title on to Arhur John Roberts.
		Late October, 1966: On Gawsworth's instructions, a new Irrevocable Covenant was drafted by Professor Alan Fogg, by which he abdicated as 3rd King of Redonda in favour of Arthur John Roberts, to take effect on 17th February, 1967, being the twentieth anniversary of Gawsworth reign.
		Contact with Gawsworth's remaining friends was broken, and in consequence, the exact whereabouts of the reigning King was a mystery.
	www.redonda.org /legalaspects.html (1007 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda
		Gawsworth tried to sell the island to the Swedish royal family but was prevented by Britain.
		After the death of Juan I in 1970, the crown was demanded by John Wynne-Tyson (Juan II).
		That there are now as many as nine pretenders to the Redondan throne is a testament to the confusion of Gawsworth's last years.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Antigua_and_Barbuda.html (1193 words)

	The Redonda Legend: A Chronological Bibliography by John D Squires
		Fletcher, Ian, “John Gawsworth: The Aesthetics of Failure,” The Malahat Review: An International Magazine of Life and Letters, no. 63 (University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), (October 1982): 206-219.
		Dobson, Roger, “John Gawsworth: King of Redonda,” in Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson, with Annabel Hendry, Inside Notting Hill, London: Portobello Publishing Ltd, May, 2001, pp 192-195.
		Holloway, Mark, “John Gawsworth: A Memoir,” with an Introduction by Jon Wynne-Tyson.
	www.alangullette.com /lit/shiel/essays/RedondaBibliography.htm (4602 words)

	Soho, London: the history of Soho, its characters & events - Sohemian Society
		John Branston, friend of notorious postwar fl-marketeer and Soho 'pay-to-see' strip-joint and drinking club owner, the late Michael Nelson, related the choicest escapades from Mickey's kiss-and-tell 'Captain Blossom' memoirs.
		Join The Sohemians to hear Roger Dobson celebrate Gawsworth's extraordinary life as poet, boozer, bohemian and King of Redonda.
		The writer Joan Wyndham chronicled the different stages of Bohemianism in Britain from the unique perspective of her own extraordinary life.
	www.sohemians.com /SOHevents.html (1227 words)

	Kingdom of Redonda
		King Felipe died in London in 1947 and was succeeded by the poet John Gawsworth (a.k.a.
		Gawsworth carried on with his remarkable reign until he in turn died, some say of drink, in the year of Our Lord 1970, at the age of 58.
		For there was good in Gawsworth, as in you.
	www.jalypso.com /redonda (1817 words)

	John Gawsworth Summary
		The English lyric poet John Gawsworth enjoyed styling himself as a "man of letters" in the urbane, eclectic, nineteenth-century sense of the term.
		John Gawsworth(June 29 1912- September 23 1970), a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.
		Get the complete John Gawsworth Summary Pack, which includes everything on this page.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Gawsworth (120 words)

	Pywrit.com - M P Shiel Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He created the decadent detective Prince Zaleski, and was published by John Lane.
		His collaborators included William Thomas Stead as an ideas man, Edgar Jepson, Oswell Blakeston, and later John Gawsworth and Louis Tracy.
		The content of his works was muddled, but included some rudimentary versions of Nietzsche's thought, promotion of the ideas of Henry George, and casual racism.
	www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfs_z/MPShiel/MPShielBio.htm (307 words)

	Dark Back of Time - Javier Marías
		Much is patently true -- there are real Oxonians here (colleagues and booksellers, among others), real historical figures (notably "the inevitable John Gawsworth"), biographical detail about Marías and his family.
		He was accidentally (apparently) killed by New Years' revellers, by a shot "so implausible that if it had occurred in a novel and not in life no one could give the slightest credence" to its unlikely trajectory.
		Marías fascination with this author, and with other characters -- the adventurer De Wet, for example, or Gawsworth --, takes the reader on some unusual journeys, recounting their odd and forgotten lives -- and the difficulty of determining the true facts of their lives (and deaths).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mariasj/negraedt.htm (1577 words)

	All Souls
		This is probably the book to start reading this important author: it is immediately accessible, and both characters and themes crop up in later books.
		Among the cast is a secondhand bookseller called Alabaster, and a character who slopes around looking for obscure books by John Gawsworth ("King of Redonda") and other mysterious Fitzrovia figures.
		There were people in Oxford who believed that All Souls was a roman a clef.
	www.johnsandoe.com /review_738.htm (163 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		The seed for the Ewart digression comes from another Marías novel, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, where he examines the circumstances surrounding a peculiar death.
		The final substantive digression deals with the small Caribbean island nation Redodna, where the minor poet John Gawsworth is the island's second leader.
		Oloff is not only the man who made Gawsworth's death mask; he is also an intriguing figure in Spanish folklore, as he made an appeal to Franco on behalf of a rogue group hoping to gain support for a guerrilla campaign against the Russians in the Carpathians.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/01_3/darkback.html (245 words)

	M.P. Shiel Collection
		Innovative in concept, the Shielography contained not only the most complete listing of Shiel's known works at the time of publication, but also comments, insights, and evaluations by Morse.
		In 1977, John D. Squires wrote to Mr.
		Morse to ascertain whether or not he was the author of the Shielography.
	www.rollins.edu /olin/archives/shiel.htm (572 words)

	GAWSWORTH MSS.
		The Gawsworth mss., 1932 and 1953-1962, consist of letters and cards from British bookseller Percival Horace Muir, 1894-1979 to poet John Gawsworth, the pseudonym used by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, 1912-1970.
		The remaining letters focus on Muir's payments or offers of payment for books and manuscripts scouted by Gawsworth to sell to Muir for the book trade.
		There is one letter in the file not to Gawsworth but to a patron of his named W.R. Hipwell, 19 February 1955.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/gawsworth.html (179 words)

	Textbooks by John P Gilbert - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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