It is only four weeks to publication day. A mind-focussing fact.
On the day, 7 September, I shall have a post announcing publication, displaying the cover with its centenary bellyband, giving details of how to buy the book, and quoting a few comments from readers — which means mainly you, faithful followers of the George Calderon blog who have emailed me since reading your copy. (Thank you!)
That post will have to stay up for at least a month, to catch what we hope will be the first flush of enthusiasm, then perhaps I can modify it with news of sales and extracts from reviews of, er, both polarities. Of course, during that period I will always respond to Comments where appropriate. Please keep them coming.
How, then, to use the last month on the blog?
I thought it might be fitting to have just three posts on themes that have pervaded Calderonia over the last four years. The first, in three days time, will be a review by Alison of a biography that is particularly interesting for two reasons: 1) it is almost as much the story of a group of people as of its principal subject, Eric Ravilious, and 2) a powerful presence throughout is William Rothenstein, one of George’s closest friends. To the best of my knowledge, there is still no full-length biography of Rothenstein.
The first year of the blog, 2014-15, was mainly concerned with what was happening in George and Kittie’s lives on that day exactly a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, I cannot pin anything specific to 23 August 1918 in Kittie’s life, but there is a document dated 23 August 1915 which is highly significant and will lead naturally on to my last pre-publication post: ‘The War, Chronotopia and Commemoration’ (30 August).
Thank you all, as ever, for keeping me company on this long journey.
Patrick Miles
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Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
George Calderon c.1901
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Captain of the 11
George Calderon, 1912
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Countdown
It is only four weeks to publication day. A mind-focussing fact.
On the day, 7 September, I shall have a post announcing publication, displaying the cover with its centenary bellyband, giving details of how to buy the book, and quoting a few comments from readers — which means mainly you, faithful followers of the George Calderon blog who have emailed me since reading your copy. (Thank you!)
That post will have to stay up for at least a month, to catch what we hope will be the first flush of enthusiasm, then perhaps I can modify it with news of sales and extracts from reviews of, er, both polarities. Of course, during that period I will always respond to Comments where appropriate. Please keep them coming.
How, then, to use the last month on the blog?
I thought it might be fitting to have just three posts on themes that have pervaded Calderonia over the last four years. The first, in three days time, will be a review by Alison of a biography that is particularly interesting for two reasons: 1) it is almost as much the story of a group of people as of its principal subject, Eric Ravilious, and 2) a powerful presence throughout is William Rothenstein, one of George’s closest friends. To the best of my knowledge, there is still no full-length biography of Rothenstein.
The first year of the blog, 2014-15, was mainly concerned with what was happening in George and Kittie’s lives on that day exactly a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, I cannot pin anything specific to 23 August 1918 in Kittie’s life, but there is a document dated 23 August 1915 which is highly significant and will lead naturally on to my last pre-publication post: ‘The War, Chronotopia and Commemoration’ (30 August).
Thank you all, as ever, for keeping me company on this long journey.
Patrick Miles
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