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Leonard Alfred George Strong (8 March 1896 – 17 August 1958) was a highly popular English novelist, critic, historian and poet, and published under the name "L. A. G. Strong." He served as a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938 to 1958. == Life == Strong was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, of a half-Irish father and Irish mother, and was proud of his Irish heritage. As a youth, he considered being a comedian and took lessons in singing. He studied at Brighton College〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Leonard Alfred George Strong (OB. 1910-15) )〕 and earned a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, as what was known as an Open Classical Scholar (studies in literature and the arts).〔''Poems of Today, Third Series'', p. xxx.〕 There he came under the influence of W. B. Yeats, about whom Strong wrote fairly extensively; they met first in autumn 1919. Their friendship lasted for twenty years. He gained a wide interest in literature and wrote about many important contemporary authors, including James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Millington Synge, and John Masefield. He worked as an Assistant Master at Summer Fields, a boys' boarding preparatory school in the outskirts of Oxford, from 1917 to 1919 and from 1920 to 1930, and as a Visiting Tutor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. One of his pupils was a son of Reginald McKenna.〔 He was a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938 until his death. For many years he was a governor of his old school, Brighton College. Strong's autobiography, ''Green Memory'', published after his death, described his family (including a grandmother in Ireland), his earliest years, his school-days, and his friendships at Wadham College; among them were Yeats and George Moore.〔 Following his death, a memorial service was held for him at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 3 October 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Papers relating to Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896–1958) )〕 His cousin was the nurse Emily MacManus; he wrote the foreword for her autobiography, ''Fifty Years Of Nursing - Matron of Guy's'' (1956). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonard Strong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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