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How Dare You, Sir!
I need a pipe to recover from this… There I was, happily reading The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters (between former schoolmaster George Lyttelton and publisher Rupert Hart-Davis) and enjoying all the...
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Lovers in London – A.A. Milne
Many authors regret their first book. They wish for it to disappear completely, never to be seen or heard of again, completely disassociated from any future career they might make for themselves....
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The Ivory Door – A.A. Milne
I love fairy tales and I love A.A. Milne. When you put them together, I’m a happy woman. And thankfully Milne used fairy tales – or at least fairy-tale-esque settings – in a number of his writings....
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The Great Broxopp – A.A. Milne
The Great Broxopp by A.A. Milne is often referred to as prophetic. Written in 1921, it features a man who feels his life has been blighted by his father’s commercial success with the baby food he used...
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The Truth About Blayds – A.A. Milne
Reading The Truth About Blayds by A.A. Milne, I had no difficultly understanding why it was one of Milne’s favourites of his many plays. Written in 1920, during his most productive period, it is...
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The Stepmother – A.A. Milne
Is The Stepmother by A.A. Milne the shortest possible thing I could have chosen to start The 1920 Club off with? Very possibly and I love it for that; it means I was able to sneak something in on...
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If I May – A.A. Milne
Not to content to simply debut multiple new plays in 1920 (not to mention welcome a son who would eventually gain immortally as Christopher Robin), A.A. Milne also put forth If I May, a collection of...
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The Romantic Age – A.A. Milne
For me, the 1920 Club this week has been a chance to discover some of the few works of A.A. Milne that I hadn’t already read. I started the week with The Stepmother, a slight one-act play, flipped...
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The Fourth Wall (or, The Perfect Alibi) – A.A. Milne
When I first did a Century of Books in 2012, it helpfully coincided with my discovery of a new favourite author: A.A. Milne. He was so prolific that a full 18 years of that century were filled by his...
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The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross
The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross is, in its own small way, an example of wartime ingenuity. After the outbreak of war in September 1939, this book was put together at rapid speed as a fundraising...
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