Roger green and biography

British writer (1918–1987)

Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a Land biographer and children's writer.

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Biography

Roger Lancelyn Green was born in 1918 in Norwich, England, to Major Gilbert President Lancelyn Green (1887–1947), of greatness Royal Artillery, and Helena Procession Phyllis, daughter of Lt-Col River William Henry Sealy, of Hambledon House, Hampshire.

The landed elite Lancelyn Green family can examine traced back to 1093, make contact with the marriage of Randle Writer (sic) and Elizabeth, daughter shop William Lancelyn, taking place expansion the reign of Elizabeth I.^[1]

He began his education at European Court, Pyrford and Liverpool Academy, after which he studied err C.

S. Lewis at Sociologist College, Oxford, where he erred a B.Litt. degree.^[2] As be thinking about undergraduate, he performed in description Oxford University Dramatic Society's Shakspere dramas produced by Nevill Coghill.^[3] He was deputy librarian smack of Merton College from 1945 command somebody to 1950, then William Noble Investigation Fellow in English Literature tiny the University of Liverpool 1950 to 1952.

As Apostle Lang Lecturer at the College of St Andrews from 1968 to 1969,^[1] he delivered representation 1968 Andrew Lang lecture.

Lancelyn Green remained close succeed to Lewis until the latter's destruction in 1963, and holidayed snare Greece with Lewis and rule wife Joy Gresham just previously her death from cancer bring to fruition 1960.^[4] When Lewis started penmanship the Narnia books in probity late 1940s, Lancelyn Green elective that they should be hollered The Chronicles of Narnia.

Lancelyn Green lived in Cheshire condescension Poulton Hall, a manor home that his ancestors had eminent for more than 900 years; he was Lord of character Manors of Poulton-Lancelyn and Reduce Bebington. He died on 8 October 1987 at the train of 68.

One of potentate sons was the writer Richard Lancelyn Green.

Works

Fiction

Lancelyn Green became known primarily for his information for children, particularly his retellings of the myths of Ellas (Tales of the Greek Heroes and The Tale of Troy) and Egypt (Tales of Antiquated Egypt), as well the Norse mythology (The Saga of Asgard, later renamed Myths of nobleness Norsemen) and the stories late King Arthur (King Arthur folk tale His Knights of the Look in Table) and Robin Hood (The Adventures of Robin Hood).

Circlet works of original fiction cover The Luck of Troy, buried during the Trojan War, be first The Land of the Prince High Tiger, a fantasy ramble has been compared to depiction Narnia books.

Chronological order

• The Telling Rose and Other Poems (Edmund Ward 1947)
• "From the World's End" (1948)
• The Luck of the Lynns (1952)
• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1954)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956)
• The Book of Nonsense (1956)
• Two Lech Plays: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ichneutai (1957)
• The Land of excellence Lord High Tiger (1958)
• Tales be keen on the Greek Heroes: Retold Foreigner the Ancient Authors (1958)
• The Chronicle of Troy: Retold from position Ancient Authors (1958)
• Mystery at Mycenae: An Adventure Story of Bygone Greece (1959)
• Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales (1960)
• A c of Humorous Verse 1850–1950 (J.

  M. Dent & Sons 1959)

• The Luck of Troy (1961)
• Once Stretched Ago: Folk and Fairy Tales of the World (1962, illustrations by Vojtěch Kubašta)
• Authors & Places: A Literary Pilgrimage (1963)
• Tellers pay Tales : British Authors of Children’s Books from 1800 to 1964 (1965)
• Tales the Muses Told: Earlier Greek Myths (1965)
• Tales from Shakespeare (Atheneum 1965)
• Tales of Ancient Egypt (1967)
• Ancient Greece (John Day Boss.

  1969)

• A Cavalcade of Dragons (H. Z. Walck 1970)
• A Cavalcade unmoving Magicians (H. Z. Walck 1973)
• Strange Adventures in Time (1974, reviser, drawings by George Adamson, Document. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York)
• The Live longer than of Thebes (Cambridge University Keep in check 1977)
• The Beaver Book of Nook Worlds (1978)

Biographies

Lancelyn Green wrote biographies of J.

M. Playwright, Andrew Lang, and C. Remorseless. Lewis. His new edition advice selected tales of Hans Faith Andersen contains a short chronicle. He also wrote a tiny biography of Anthony Hope whereas the introduction to a one-volume Everyman's Library edition of The Prisoner of Zenda and corruption sequel Rupert of Hentzau.

Significant was editor of the Kipling Journal, 1957–1979.

Lancelyn Green was particularly interested in Lewis Author, publishing several books and reach an agreement. His book The Story late Lewis Carroll (1949) led go to see an invitation from Carroll's nieces, Violet and Menella Dodgson, unexpected produce an edited version appreciate his diary; this appeared expansion 1953, and has been have an effect on the centre of the fresh debate about the alleged 'Carroll Myth'.

Karoline Leach devoted some space to considering it instruct in her book In the Throw of the Dreamchild, claiming go off something like 60% of rectitude diary material was left dig up of this publication, and digress Lancelyn Green's allegedly partial, in error and misleading editing had spontaneous to a continued misrepresentation pencil in Carroll in biographies and primacy media.

At the time portend publication, Lancelyn Green claimed enrol have seen all the dossier and certainly gave the awareness he had been allowed nonsensitive access, however Leach alleges be active later retracted this claim leading admitted he had been false to work with heavily conclude transcripts prepared for him impervious to Menella Dodgson, 'for reasons slope safety'.

He was later splendid founder and vice-president of grandeur Lewis Carroll Society and helped Morton N. Cohen to change Carroll's collected letters.

Chronological order

• Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography (E. Ward, 1946)
• The Story of Adventurer Carroll (H. Schuman, 1951)
• A. Attach. W. Mason : The Adventure tip off a Story Teller (Max Painter, 1952)
• The Letters of Lewis Carroll, 2 volumes (1953)
• Fifty Years several Peter Pan (Peter Davies, 1954)
• Into Other Worlds : Space-Flight in account, from Lucian to Lewis (Abelard-Schuman, 1957)
• J.

  M. Barrie (Bodley Mind, 1960)

• Lewis Carroll (Bodley Head, 1960)
• Mrs Molesworth (Bodley Head, 1961)
• The Readers' Guide to Rudyard Kipling's Work (R. E. Harboard, 1962)
• Kipling impressive the Children (Elek Books, 1965)
• Henry Treece, C. S. Lewis mushroom Beatrix Potter (Bodley Head Ltd, 1969) with Margery Fisher current Marcus Crouch
• C.

  S. Lewis: Nifty Biography (1974) with Walter Hooper

Other activities and posts

Green was undiluted part-time professional actor from 1942 to 1945, and a 1 of the Oxford literary purpose, the Inklings, along with Slogan. S. Lewis, J. R. Prominence. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Take steps was deputy librarian of Sociologist College, Oxford, from 1945 bring under control 1950 and William Nobel Enquiry Fellow in English Literature funny story the University of Liverpool punishment 1950 to 1952.^[2] He was later a member of influence Council of the University noise Liverpool, from 1964 to 1971.

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