Six Studies in Quarrelling by Vincent Brome (HQ571)

Published 1958: First Edition / Hardcover / Excellent Condition

Original red cloth with black titles on the spine and original dust jacket in protective wraps. 198 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (HQ571)

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An entertaining introduction to the great debates of the fin de siècle era, from Darwinism to Socialism. Brome describes the ‘quarrels’ of some of the key literary figures of the time: George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and the formidable Dr. Coulton. Churchill and Henry James also put in appearances in this lucid and accessible guide to the big ideas of the age, which is as readable for its insights into the lives and characters involved as for the essentials of the arguments.

Vincent Brome was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters. He is best known for a series of biographies of politicians, writers and followers of Sigmund Freud. He also wrote numerous novels, and was a dramatist.

He was born and brought up in London, and educated at Streatham Grammar School and Elleston School. He failed to enter university, and was found a job at a tea broker. He left home at 18 determined to write for a living. He took up residence in Bloomsbury, where he would live for the rest of his life.

Following the electoral success of the Labour Party in 1945, Brome turned his hand to biography writing. Fittingly, his first subject was the new Prime Minister: Clement Attlee.

He went on to receive some critical and commercial success with his second work, H.G. Wells in 1950. Brome went on to chronicle the lives of such men as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Frank Harris, J. B. Priestley, and Havelock Ellis to wide acclaim. Two of his literary works, The Surgeon and The Embassy, were international bestsellers. However, his works were not always treated so kindly by critics; his biography of Aneurin Bevan was particularly poorly received.
Brome was a regular at the British Library, and was a member of its advisory committee from 1975 until 1982.

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