Gilbert: his life and strife

Hesketh PEARSON

Published by London: Methuen, 1957

About this Item

Free endpapers mildly embrowned, dustwrapper slightly faded at spine. Biography of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, inscribed by the author to his (second) wife five days before publication day, "To my Love from Her Love 5/10/57"; later in the library of his literary executor, Sir Michael Holroyd. "A happily stubborn man," wrote the New York Herald reviewer, "is Hesketh Pearson, the English actor-turned-author who just won't believe that a good biography can't be an entertainment as well. Ever since the reaction against Lytton Strachey and his school set in, this notion has been reviewed darkly in circles not given to reading for pleasure, but Mr. Pearson goes on testing it, and somehow he keeps coming out ahead. One explanation, perhaps, is that he unfailingly gives the impression, as he writes, that he himself is having a perfectly splendid time." Pearson had first written about Gilbert in his joint biography Gilbert and Sullivan (1935).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gilbert: his life and strife
• Publisher: London: Methuen
• Publication Date: 1957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)