Something Rather Scandalous
Jean McNicol: The Loves of Rupert Brooke, 20 October 2016
Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth
by Nigel Jones.
Head of Zeus, 588 pp., £12, April 2015,978 1 78185 703 8 Show More
by Nigel Jones.
Head of Zeus, 588 pp., £12, April 2015,
Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke
by Paul Delany.
McGill-Queen’s, 380 pp., £28.99, March 2015,978 0 7735 4557 1 Show More
by Paul Delany.
McGill-Queen’s, 380 pp., £28.99, March 2015,
The Second I Saw You: The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
by Lorna C. Beckett.
British Library, 216 pp., £16.99, April 2015,978 0 7123 5792 0 Show More
by Lorna C. Beckett.
British Library, 216 pp., £16.99, April 2015,
“... read about Brooke in the papers knew nothing of this, and nothing of his charm and beauty (Leonard Woolf: ‘His looks were stunning – it is the only appropriate adjective’; W.B. Yeats: ‘the handsomest young man in England’; H.W. Nevinson: ‘the whole effect was almost ludicrously beautiful’). The principal driver of myth-creation was the ... ”