Frank Harris

Just finished reading Life and Loves – what a fascinating book and what a delightful person! Doesn’t his objection to the Boer war in volume 4 remind us of the arguments heard today over the Iraq fiasco? A major superpower engages in an expensive and immoral adventure because of one person’s determination to conclude an ‘unfinished business’, and… well, because they can! There is of course the bad guy – his loathing of The Kaiser (and putting part of the blame on him) is not far removed from our own attitude to Saddam.

would like to hear from Anne from Melbourne about her great uncle, Bruce Logan. My uncle knew Clarence Hatry and I would like to learn more about Hatry's life.

Came across this site while researching any background to 'Eve', a poem by Ralph Hodgson. Having recently recorded a setting of it, I'd never known it was anything other than a straight 'Garden of Eden' story until I discovered the claim by Enid Bagnold that it was about her affair with FH. What was her connection to Hodgson though? Peter Michael Rowan RBL Music Edinburgh Scotland

I have a copy of the book "My Darling Daisy" written by Theo Lang (1965) which relates to Lady Daisy Warwick attempting to blackmail King George V in 1914 in relation to letters written to her by the King's father, King Edward VII (written when he was both Prince of Wales and King). Frank Harris assisted Lady Warwick with the blackmail plan which included the threat to publish the letters and memoirs in America if not paid a large sum of money.

Reading "The Man Shakespeare" for the second time (about thirty years apart) and thrilled with every word of it. It's so outrageous in a sense, and yet strikes as so true. I'll give it to all my Shakespeare-loving friends to see how it affects them. Will post my findings on this Web site...

For the record, the Girodias preface to the fifth volunme of "My Life and Loves" was first published in "The Olympia Reader", published by Grove Press in 1965. (The "Reader" was an anthology of excerpts from Olympia books, with Girodias's comments on the authors and their books.

I have happily found a copy of 'My life and loves'. I have not read such an entertaining book for a long time. It does not really matter that some of it may be untrue Harris was from Ireland home of the Blarney! I find his attempt to be as honest about his life very refreshing for the time in which he lived. I find the character of Frank Harris totally wonderful, a man determined to educate himself about everything and especially about the erotic needs and pleasures of women, a very unusual thing for the time. Good for you Frank.

The Life and Loves was read by my parents some time during the fifties and they tried to keep the volumes hidden from us kids. I think I found one volume wrapped in brown papaer in my mother's pot-cupboard. What was I looking for?

two things...Frank Harris is mentioned in a book called The Golden Voice see http://kalloch.accessgenealogy.com/gannett.htm as a bouncer at The Eldridge House bar, an establishment still... the Kate Stephens scholarship is unofficially known as the "get the hell out of the midwest scholarship" -- Scholarship for KU graduate in humanities or social sciences who plans to attend graduate school east of the Alleghenies or west of the Rockies. Given every three years. to which a friend greatly availed...

I would like to know which of the "Contemporary Portraits" series is best, and also if there is a combined edition. Thanks. Mark