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Colegate, Isabel

Isabel Colegate is a novelist who feels a need for facts among her fancies. Her two novels set just before the First World War are Statues in a Garden and The Shooting Party.

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20211115132829 Posy Fallowfield on Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party, SF Issue 72

Not While It’s Running

Posy Fallowfield on Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party

My father used to tell a story about a Frenchman (the dependable butt of Edwardian jokes) being invited to some large estate for a shoot. Seeing a cock pheasant coming into the open and running alongside a wood, he levels his gun to aim at it. At which his English host says, ‘My dear man, you can’t shoot it while it’s running!’ The Frenchman replies, ‘Certainly not, I shall wait until it stops.’ This used to make my father fall about laughing but I could never understand why.
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A Mortal Wound

Isabel Colegate on George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England

The myth of the golden years before the First World War, brought to a tragic and unforeseen end by that war’s outbreak, lingers on despite all the evidence produced by subsequent historians to show how dangerously shaky were the foundations of that apparent stability. In 1936 when The Strange Death of Liberal England was published, George Dangerfield’s picture of the years from 1910 to 1914 was startlingly original. It was also astonishingly well written, which was probably one of the reasons why it made very little stir at the time, since so serious a reassessment might not have been expected to find its expression in such apparently genial mockery and in passages of quite such bravura prose.

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