Bright Old Thing
D.A.N. Jones, 23 July 1987
Letters of Conrad Russell: 1897-1947
edited by Georgiana Blakiston.
Murray, 278 pp., £16.95, May 1987,0 7195 4382 7 Show More
edited by Georgiana Blakiston.
Murray, 278 pp., £16.95, May 1987,
“... if only from simple loyalty to the landowner. Russell’s life was not remarkable, on the surface. Evelyn Waugh said he was ‘exquisitely entertaining’, but this is ambiguous: he may have meant that Russell was a figure of fun, like William Boot. When Russell died in 1947 he was described in the Times as ‘that most endearing of Somerset ... ”