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Ronald Firbank
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative British novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.
==Biography==
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born in Britain on 17 January 1886, at Clarges Street in London, the son of MP Sir Thomas Firbank and Lady Firbank (nee Harriet Jane Garrett). He had an older brother, Joseph Sydney (born 1884), and a younger brother, Hubert Somerset (born 1887), and sister, Heather (born 1888).〔Benkovitz, M. J. (1969). ''Ronald Firbank. A Biography''. Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 11-13.〕 At the age of ten he went briefly to Uppingham School (September 1900 to April 1901)〔Fletcher, Ifan Kyrle (1930). ''Ronald Firbank. A Memoir''. London: Duckworth.〕 and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge without taking a degree.
Living off his inheritance, he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. Openly gay〔Levant, Oscar (1968). ''The Unimportance of being Oscar'', Putnam, pp. 158-159.〕 and chronically shy, he was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and cannabis. He died of lung disease in Rome, aged 40, and is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.〔Firbank's grave may be found in Riquadro (Section) 38 of the Reparto Stranieri (Foreigners Section) in Campo Verano. His official record on the cemetery office computer states that this is the 'Rep Stranieri Anglicani' (Anglican Foreigners Section), but Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff is buried (in a communal grave) in the same section, and his official record states that it is the 'Reparto Stranieri Cattolici = Zona Inglese' (Catholic Foreigners Section, English Zone), so it would appear that Section 38 was used for both Anglicans and Catholics.〕
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