Brunette Coleman was a
pseudonym used by the poet and writer
Philip Larkin (1922–1985). In 1943, toward the end of his time as an undergraduate at
St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name. The style he adopted parodies that of popular writers of contemporary girls' school fiction, but the extent of the stories' homoerotic content suggests they were written primarily for adult male titillation. The Coleman oeuvre consists of a completed
novella, Trouble at Willow Gables, set in a girls' boarding school; an incomplete sequel, Michaelmas Term at St Brides, set in a women's college at Oxford; seven short poems with a girls' school ambience; a fragment of pseudo-autobiography; and a critical essay purporting to be Coleman's literary apologia. The manuscripts' existence was revealed to the public when Larkin's Selected Letters and
Andrew Motion's biography were published in 1992 and 1993 respectively. The Coleman works themselves were finally published, with other Larkin drafts and oddments, in 2002. Critical reaction was divided. (more...)
The
town hall of Großbottwar, a town in the
Ludwigsburg district of
Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The town sits within the
Neckar River basin and is located on a tourist route through the
Württemberg wine region. It was founded sometime during the mid-13th century by an alliance of prominent families. Unlike most towns in the region, Großbottwar was neither heavily damaged by war nor by urban fires, so there are many old buildings from the 15th through the 17th centuries with the original
timber framing. The town hall itself is noted for its half-timber construction and decoratively carved
façade.
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Brunette Coleman was a
pseudonym used by the poet and writer
Philip Larkin (1922–1985). In 1943, toward the end of his time as an undergraduate at
St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name. The style he adopted parodies that of popular writers of contemporary girls' school fiction, but the extent of the stories' homoerotic content suggests they were written primarily for adult male titillation. The Coleman oeuvre consists of a completed
novella, Trouble at Willow Gables, set in a girls' boarding school; an incomplete sequel, Michaelmas Term at St Brides, set in a women's college at Oxford; seven short poems with a girls' school ambience; a fragment of pseudo-autobiography; and a critical essay purporting to be Coleman's literary apologia. The manuscripts' existence was revealed to the public when Larkin's Selected Letters and
Andrew Motion's biography were published in 1992 and 1993 respectively. The Coleman works themselves were finally published, with other Larkin drafts and oddments, in 2002. Critical reaction was divided. (more...)
The
town hall of Großbottwar, a town in the
Ludwigsburg district of
Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The town sits within the
Neckar River basin and is located on a tourist route through the
Württemberg wine region. It was founded sometime during the mid-13th century by an alliance of prominent families. Unlike most towns in the region, Großbottwar was neither heavily damaged by war nor by urban fires, so there are many old buildings from the 15th through the 17th centuries with the original
timber framing. The town hall itself is noted for its half-timber construction and decoratively carved
façade.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,017,613 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.