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Richard Hughes and Childhood
When Richard
Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica was published in 1929, what made the
book such a talking-point on both sides of the Atlantic was its sharp, bleak,
decidedly original (and some thought cynical) view of childhood. In this
lecture Hughes's biographer introduces what is increasingly recognised as the
classic twentieth-century novel of childhood, and explains how it came to be
written.
Richard
Hughes is a currently neglected writer who during his lifetime
was famous chiefly as the author of two novels:
A High Wind in Jamaica, the classic twentieth century
novel about childhood; and The Fox in the Attic, in part a chilling account
of the rise of Nazi Germany.
Richard Hughes, Dylan Thomas and Laugharne.
Laugharne
and Dylan Thomas are now so indissolubly associated in the
public mind that few people realise that Thomas only settled
in Laugharne because of his admiration for the writer Richard
Hughes, who was then living in a somewhat dilapidated house
in the Castle grounds. This lecture gives an account of the
friendship between the two men - a friendship which was partly
responsible for Thomas writing his classic 'play for voices'
Under Milk Wood.
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