[One-page TLS from Bernard Miles, founder of Mermaid Theatre, to Margaret Crosland requesting another copy of To Build a World]

[MILES, Bernard]; [MERMAID THEATRE]; [CROSLAND, Margaret];

Date d'édition : 1965

A propos de cet article

One-page TLS (19 Oct. 1965)) on white note paper: typed in black, featuring the "Mermaid Theatre, Puddle Dock, Blackfriars" letterhead in black, and signed in blue biro. Single fold, a few notes in black pen. Very good. An apologetic TLS, from Bernard Miles, the British actor-director and founder of the Mermaid Theatre, to the literary biographer and translator, Margaret Crosland: "Like an idiot I have mislaid TO BUILD A WORLD. It's safe somewhere, but I have three homes [.] Is it possible you could supply me with a spare copy, and I will read it at once." Bernard Miles, Baron Miles (1907 1991) was a British actor, writer and director. With his wife, the actor Josephine Wilson, he had opened the Mermaid Theatre, at Puddle Dock in Blackfriars, London, in 1959. Perhaps he was considering To Build a World (whatever it was?) for theatrical adaptation? From Margaret Crosland's archive. Crosland (1920-2017) was an important and prolific British literary biographer and translator of French and Italian authors, "who pioneered Cocteau" in Britain (Owen, 2009). She was the French literature consultant for the British publisher Peter Owen, who issued many of her biographies and translations, and thus she played a crucial role in introducing French authors, such as Jean Cocteau and Colette, as well as the Marquis de Sade, Apollinaire and Anaïs Nin, to mid-century British audiences. Owen observed that Crosland was "very important in advising us on books to publish. It was Margaret who pioneered Cocteau [. and] led us to Dalí, as she knew his novel Hidden Faces" (ibid). Her biographical subjects included both Colette and Jean Cocteau (titles much under discussion in her archive), Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Radiguet and Edith Piaf, and she translated works by writers including Sade, Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese, as well as Colette and Cocteau. She was also a voluminous correspondent, literary broker and networker, as her letters evidence in rich and fascinating detail. Peter Owen (2009) Interview with Steven Fowler, Vice Magazine.

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• Titre: [One-page TLS from Bernard Miles, founder of Mermaid Theatre, to Margaret Crosland requesting another copy of To Build a World]
• Date de parution: 1965
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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