C.E. Montague - Disenchantment - Softcover

Montague, C.E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785436562 ISBN 13: 9781785436567

Publisher: Horse's Mouth, 2017

Synopsis

Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and was then invited for a month’s trial and, after impressing, to work there. Montague and the editor, C. P. Scott shared the same political views and between them they turned the Manchester Guardian into a vibrant and campaigning newspaper. They were for Irish Home Rule and against the Boer War and the First World War. But now that the war had begun. Montague believed that it was important to give full and unequivocal support to the British government. Despite his age, 47, he was determined to serve. Montague was soon promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and with it a transfer to Military Intelligence. The war also brought about a crisis in his faith and it was resolved by Montague temporarily putting it to one side and carrying on with the fighting. In November 1918 the war was over and Montague could now return home to his wife and family and also to the Manchester Guardian where he would continue to work until retirement in 1925. For Montague the war had been corrosive but it had given him much to write about both for the paper but also for his books which he now hoped to also spend more time on. Among those to flow from his pen are the novels A Hind Let Loose and Rough Justice as well as collections of short stories, other essays and a travel book. He finally retired in 1925, and settled down to become a full-time writer in the last years of his life. Charles Edward Montague died in Manchester on May 28th, 1928 at the age of 61.

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About the Author:

Charles Edward Montague was born in 1867. His father was a former Irish Catholic priest who had renounced his office. He joined the staff of the Manchester Guardian in 1890 after a stellar student career at Oxford, and by the late nineties he was the paper's chief leader writer, working closely with the great C.P. Scott, the paper's editor. He married Scott's daughter in 1898. Montague was particularly alert to the misuse of journalism and the power of the press. In 1914 he accepted that Germany was responsible for the war and that German militarism had to be defeated, a position that put him at odds with Scott's more pacifist editorial line. After the war he returned to the Guardian as a contributor of impressionistic and literary pieces. He died in 1928.

About this edition

• Publisher: Horse's Mouth
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785436562
• ISBN 13: 9781785436567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94