Mansfield Forbes (known as ‘Manny’ to several generations of Cambridge colleagues and pupils) was the very young historian-Fellow of Clare College who justafter the First World War had more to do with the founding of the Cambridge English Faculty and its intellectual basis than anyone else. He was also one ofthe great Cambridge eccentrics (but a charming one). Innocent, original, unselfconscious and without egoism, his virtues produced his oddities. As a child,Hugh Carey knew him as ‘Uncle Manny’. This affectionate portrait, illustratedwith photographs, reconstructs Forbes’ life, and explores his other interests, which included Scottish domestic architecture and modern art. Mr Carey also uncovers alternative aspects of that vanished but still influential Cambridge that somehow united in intellectual activity Keynes, the Bloomsbury group, thegreat physicists and biologists, Richards, Leavis and their colleagues: some high-minded, some high-spirited, others open-hearted - and many quite well cushioned by investment income. INDICE: List of illustrations; A note on the illustrations; Foreword; Sources and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: forks and hope; 2. Cheltenham sparsely valued; 3. Young fellow; 4. Letters to Theo; 5. The English school; 6. Thevisionary gleam; 8. 'Finella' richly valued; 9. Tilting at windmills; 10. Account rendered; Appendix; Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-12929-9
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés