Julian Maclaren-Ross, 1912 – 1964) was a British novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, screenwriter, and literary critic. He is synonymous with the bohemian world of mid-twentieth-century Soho and Fitzrovia.
Julian Maclaren-Ross
Connection: Graham Greene
Other Worlds, Dame Nellie Melba and Oscar Wilde, Savoy Hotel
In the late 1800s the hospitality industry in London was in the doldrums. The most famous diva of her time, Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, described the cooking at the city’s leading hotels as ‘execrable…The carpets were dirty, the menu was medieval, the service an insult.’ The opening of The Savoy in 1889 changed… Read more »
Travels with a Donkey, Robert Louis Stevenson
Well before he became known as a novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson was an essayist and travel writer. And like many Scots, he had an affinity with France, feeling free and at home there. The French attitude that considered art to be an essential part of ordinary life seemed more adult to him. His stepson Lloyd… Read more »