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1wirkman
I know of two novels that were dedicated to James Branch Cabell: Sinclair Lewis's MAIN STREET and Ellen Glasgow's THEY STOOPED TO FOLLY.
Any others?
Any others?
2Crypto-Willobie
Carl Van Vechten's Firecrackers
Paul Jordan Smith's Nomad
Perhaps also Sam Steward's Pan and the Firebird, but I'm not sure and don't have one. I've read that the style is very Cabellian and I know Steward sent JBC a copy with a hand-written dedication.
I think maybe Claire Myers Spotswood's Unpredictable Adventure, though I'm not sure and I'd have to walk up two flights to check and I'm tired. It's a feminist pastiche of Jurgen ( ! ), she uses JBC as a character, and she too sent him a copy with a handwritten dedication.
Wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't something by Vardis Fisher but I haven't seen enough of his books to be able to say. He did subtitle one " A Comedy of Evasions".
No Jack Woodford?
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Paul Jordan Smith's Nomad
Perhaps also Sam Steward's Pan and the Firebird, but I'm not sure and don't have one. I've read that the style is very Cabellian and I know Steward sent JBC a copy with a hand-written dedication.
I think maybe Claire Myers Spotswood's Unpredictable Adventure, though I'm not sure and I'd have to walk up two flights to check and I'm tired. It's a feminist pastiche of Jurgen ( ! ), she uses JBC as a character, and she too sent him a copy with a handwritten dedication.
Wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't something by Vardis Fisher but I haven't seen enough of his books to be able to say. He did subtitle one " A Comedy of Evasions".
No Jack Woodford?
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3Crypto-Willobie
Here's another one I just stumbled on-- I haven't seen the book but the dedication to Cabell (and to GK chesterton) is mentioned in a bookseller's listing:
Mary Gentle's Rats and Gargoyles.
Mary Gentle's Rats and Gargoyles.
4Crypto-Willobie
And yet another, sort of... it's a story dedicated to Cabell. It appears in the collection The Golden Ladies of Pampeluna by Francis Cabochon.
Here's part of the Comment from my LT entry for Golden Ladies:
Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884-1973), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Cabochon and Alban M. Phillip, was a British author and publisher. The Golden Ladies of Pampeluna is a series of ribald medieval tales somewhat in the manner of James Branch Cabell. The 'Interlude' in the middle of the book, a tale called "Gaston de Nardac," is specifically dedicated to Cabell, no doubt because it is a variation on the episode in Jurgen where Jurgen goes back in time to his youthful self and kills Heitman Michael for the love of Dorothy la Desiree. It's probably not a coincidence that Golden Ladies was published in 1934 by Cabell's publisher, Robert McBride, and in the same year Allan, wearing his other hat, published Cabell's Special Delivery in the UK -- the only post-1920 Cabell hardback issued in England by a publisher other than John Lane/Bodley Head.
Here's part of the Comment from my LT entry for Golden Ladies:
Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884-1973), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Cabochon and Alban M. Phillip, was a British author and publisher. The Golden Ladies of Pampeluna is a series of ribald medieval tales somewhat in the manner of James Branch Cabell. The 'Interlude' in the middle of the book, a tale called "Gaston de Nardac," is specifically dedicated to Cabell, no doubt because it is a variation on the episode in Jurgen where Jurgen goes back in time to his youthful self and kills Heitman Michael for the love of Dorothy la Desiree. It's probably not a coincidence that Golden Ladies was published in 1934 by Cabell's publisher, Robert McBride, and in the same year Allan, wearing his other hat, published Cabell's Special Delivery in the UK -- the only post-1920 Cabell hardback issued in England by a publisher other than John Lane/Bodley Head.
