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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was an English-born author and broadcaster, a writer of Scottish fiction, biography, and histories, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party along with ...
25 mar 2024 · Compton Mackenzie (born Jan. 17, 1883, West Hartlepool, Durham, Eng.—died Nov. 30, 1972, Edinburgh) was a British novelist who suffered critical acclaim and neglect with equal indifference, leaving a prodigious output of more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies. Born into a well-known theatrical family, he was educated at Magdalen College ...
Tatting was Faith Compton Mackenzie's last novel, and revisits the early years of her marriage living in the parish of an eccentric High Church Anglican vicar in Cornwall, beset by formidable women. Mandolinata was Faith's first book, a collection of fourteen short stories set in Capri, Rome and London, all written in the 1920s, about sex, love and bad marriages.
Compton and Faith Mackenzie. The MacKenzies rented Eilean Aigas for £450 per annum from December 1930. As Faith Compton Mackenzie recalled: "On the north side rugged purple and grey cliffs flanked the narrow, turbulent river, small pine trees hung at all angles over the water from rock crevices.
Tatting was Faith Compton Mackenzie's last novel, and revisits the early years of her marriage living in the parish of an eccentric High Church Anglican vicar in Cornwall, beset by formidable women. Mandolinata was Faith's first book, a collection of fourteen short stories set in Capri, Rome and London, all written in the 1920s, about sex, love and bad marriages.
Tatting was Faith Compton Mackenzie's last novel, and revisits the early years of her marriage living in the parish of an eccentric High Church Anglican vicar in Cornwall, beset by formidable women. Mandolinata was Faith's first book, a collection of fourteen short stories set in Capri, Rome and London, all written in the 1920s, about sex, love and bad marriages.
- Faith Compton Mackenzie
30 nov 2022 · A true polymath, Sir Compton Mackenzie launched the magazine that is soon to mark its centenary. Today, November 30, marks 50 years since the death of Gramophone’s founder, and editor for nearly 40 years, Sir Compton Mackenzie (sadly, he missed the magazine’s 50th anniversary which fell in April 1973). Our January 1973 issue, carried these ...
