The promotional stand at Blackwell’s earlier in the month
One day, perhaps, I will describe how my whole post-7 September marketing strategy was upset and I had to re-focus immediately on my potential Russianist readership worldwide… Thank you to ALL Russianists everywhere who have responded magnificently! I know there are many more of you out there and I am confident that you too will answer the call of Edwardian Pioneer Russianist George Calderon, the Man Who Brought Chekhov to Britain, in due course.
Meanwhile, everlasting gratitude to Blackwell’s of Oxford, who enthusiastically took up my invitation to mount a promotional display of my book and current translations of Chekhov and other classics of Russian literature (see above). There is appropriateness here, of course, as I calculate that Blackwell’s must be situated about 200 yards from George’s old rooms in Trinity College and Oxford University has a first-class Russian Department with, I’m sure, scores of keen freshers streaming in this term.
I understand now why Blackwell’s are consistently Bookseller of the Year, and I wish Heffers of Cambridge and Toppings of St Andrews would follow their example!
SOME RESPONSES RECEIVED SO FAR
‘The book is written with great assurance and the reader always feels in safe hands. I liked the idea of it being a story and I read it the same way I would read a novel.’ Harvey Pitcher, writer
‘It is a masterly synthesis of your own approach with scholarship and very judicious discussion of the evidence.’ Emeritus Professor Catherine Andreyev, historian
‘A monumental scholarly masterpiece that gives real insight into how the Edwardians viewed the world.’ Arch Tait, Translator of Natalya Rzhevskaya’s Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter
‘You have, I believe, architected and written a monumental and original biography.’ John Pym, film critic
‘This is bound to remain the definitive account.’ Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama, Tufts University
A review by DAMIAN GRANT appears in the comments to this entry.
A review by JOHN DEWEY appears here on Amazon UK.
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Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
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Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
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Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
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George Calderon c.1901
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George Calderon, 1912
Thank you, Blackwell’s of Oxford!
The promotional stand at Blackwell’s earlier in the month
One day, perhaps, I will describe how my whole post-7 September marketing strategy was upset and I had to re-focus immediately on my potential Russianist readership worldwide… Thank you to ALL Russianists everywhere who have responded magnificently! I know there are many more of you out there and I am confident that you too will answer the call of Edwardian Pioneer Russianist George Calderon, the Man Who Brought Chekhov to Britain, in due course.
Meanwhile, everlasting gratitude to Blackwell’s of Oxford, who enthusiastically took up my invitation to mount a promotional display of my book and current translations of Chekhov and other classics of Russian literature (see above). There is appropriateness here, of course, as I calculate that Blackwell’s must be situated about 200 yards from George’s old rooms in Trinity College and Oxford University has a first-class Russian Department with, I’m sure, scores of keen freshers streaming in this term.
I understand now why Blackwell’s are consistently Bookseller of the Year, and I wish Heffers of Cambridge and Toppings of St Andrews would follow their example!
SOME RESPONSES RECEIVED SO FAR
‘The book is written with great assurance and the reader always feels in safe hands. I liked the idea of it being a story and I read it the same way I would read a novel.’ Harvey Pitcher, writer
‘It is a masterly synthesis of your own approach with scholarship and very judicious discussion of the evidence.’ Emeritus Professor Catherine Andreyev, historian
‘A monumental scholarly masterpiece that gives real insight into how the Edwardians viewed the world.’ Arch Tait, Translator of Natalya Rzhevskaya’s Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter
‘You have, I believe, architected and written a monumental and original biography.’ John Pym, film critic
‘This is bound to remain the definitive account.’ Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama, Tufts University
A review by DAMIAN GRANT appears in the comments to this entry.
A review by JOHN DEWEY appears here on Amazon UK.
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