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The Right Book Club was an English book club founded in 1937 by Christina and William Foyle to counter the influential Left Book Club, established in 1936 by Victor Gollancz. [ 1 ] Origins and character
He graduated BA in the History Tripos in 1923 and took his MA in 1929. On leaving Cambridge, he joined the publishing firm William Heinemann. [1] In 1937, Finn's The English Heritage was the first selection of the newly established Right Book Club. [2]
In May 1936, the Left Book Club was established, and about the end of 1936 a group of “neo-Tories” proposed the creation of a right-wing book club. William and Christina Foyle undertook to organize it, and the Right Book Club was launched at a luncheon at the Grosvenor House Hotel in April 1937, with Lord Stonehaven , the recently-retired ...
A Short History of the Montagu-Puffins (1941) Doctor Philligo (1944) English Letter Writers (Collins, 1945) from the "Britain in Pictures" series; Edwin and Eleanor: a Pastoral of Pioneer Life (1945) Ursa Major: A Study of Dr Johnson and His Friends (London: Michael Joseph, 1946; Right Book Club, 1948)
He was on the Selection Committee of the Right Book Club, [29] with Norman Thwaites, Trevor Blakemore, Collinson Owen and W. A. Foyle. [30] After the Second World War, Ludovici fell into obscurity. In 1936, he had written enthusiastically about Adolf Hitler, whom he had met personally that year, along with many other high-ranking Nazi leaders. [31]
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In 1934, Thwaites chaired meetings of the January Club. [4] Later in the 1930s, he was a member of the selection committee of the Right Book Club, with Anthony Ludovici, Trevor Blakemore, Collinson Owen, and W. A. Foyle. [9] [10] In 1934, he was living at 34, Hyde Park Gate, and Barley End, Tring. [6]
1940 book club edition for the Right Book Club, London Translated from the French by F. R. Ludman Freeman, C. Denis; Cooper, Douglas The Road to Bordeaux 1940 London: The Cresset Press 1940 and 1941 reprints 1942 book club edition, Readers Union Mare, Walter de la: Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes 1946 London: Faber and Faber reprinted 1946