E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933)
Auteur de The City of Beautiful Nonsense
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Image from Summer 1917, and other verses (1917) by E. Temple Thurston
Œuvres de E. Temple Thurston
The greatest wish in the world (Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition) (1910) 5 exemplaires
Mr. Bottleby Does Something 3 exemplaires
"David & Jonathan," 2 exemplaires
Mirage 2 exemplaires
Jane Carroll 2 exemplaires
Coins by E. Thurston (1888) 1 exemplaire
Richard Furlong 1 exemplaire
Portrait Of A Spy 1 exemplaire
Summer 1917 and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
The Greatest Wish in the World 1 exemplaire
Portrait of a Spy 1 exemplaire
The Realist And Other Stories 1 exemplaire
The five-barred gate 1 exemplaire
The patchwork papers 1 exemplaire
The Rossetti And Other Tales 1 exemplaire
The Forest Fire And Other Stories 1 exemplaire
Mirage 1 exemplaire
The Realist 1 exemplaire
The passionate crime; a tale of faerie 1 exemplaire
The green bough, 1 exemplaire
The evolution of Katherine 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Temple Thurston, Ernest
- Date de naissance
- 1879
- Date de décès
- 1933
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Halesworth, Suffolk, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Maida Vale, London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Halesworth, Suffolk, England, UK (birth)
Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Maida Vale, London, England, UK - Professions
- poet
playwright
author - Relations
- Thurston, Katherine Cecil (wife|divorced)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 39
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 111
- Popularité
- #175,484
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 22
- Favoris
- 2
Temple Thurston was a moderately successful Edwardian novelist and playwright, born in Suffolk but spending much of his early life in Ireland. At the time of writing this, he had just been divorced from his first wife, the bestselling Irish novelist Katherine Cecil Thurston (she was to die in slightly mysterious circumstances later in 1911).
The "Flower of Gloster" is really one of those books that only became known because of someone else who read it quite a bit later, in this case the campaigner and industrial historian L T C Rolt, whose 1944 book Narrow boat launched the craze for recreational canal cruising in Britain. Writing about his time living on a converted canal barge in the thirties, Rolt credits Thurston with being the first person to notice the canals as something other than a rather outdated system for transporting cargo very slowly around the country. Compared to Rolt, Thurston's interest in the canals themselves and the people who live and work on them is fairly superficial: he's more interested in the way they act as a back door to rural England. He turns back in horror on the approach to Birmingham, where Rolt goes into lyrical ecstasies about the industrial heritage of the region and its importance to Britain's development.
Inevitably, expert canal historians have taken Thurston's book apart and concluded that he couldn't have made the journey described there in one go, and that the book is most likely a composite of several separate canal trips. But it is very interesting, especially the part about the Golden Valley and the Thames and Severn Canal, because that closed to navigation shortly after the First World War. (There are projects to restore it, and some parts have recently been reopened.)
The other association the book has in many people's minds is the 1967 ITV children's drama serial called The "Flower of Gloster", which actually had almost nothing in common with Thurston's book except that the plot centred around a journey in a horse-drawn narrow boat. I remember enjoying it, but I'm sure I didn't see it the first time it was broadcast, because that was before we got a TV...… (plus d'informations)