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Ingrams, Richard

Richard Ingrams is the editor of The Oldie and a weekly columnist in the
Independent. His most recent book, The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett, was published in 2005.

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20080901143010 Marie Hartley wood engraving - Richard Ingrams on John Stewart Collis

A Lonely Furrow

Richard Ingrams on the writings of John Stewart Collis

John Stewart Collis hated to be referred to as ‘a neglected writer’. He said that if people read that a writer is neglected their natural response is to say, ‘Well, let’s neglect him some more.’ All the same it is hard to avoid saying that Collis was, and is now, a neglected writer, this despite his having written at least one book, While Following the Plough, which deserves to be treated as one of the classic books about farming, nature and country life, on a level with those of Richard Jefferies or W. H. Hudson.
20090601165643 Richard Ingams, J. P. Martin - Slightly Foxed Issue 22

Uncle and the Badfort Crowd

Richard Ingrams on the novels of J. P. Martin

One of the great advantages of acquiring a stepson in my sixties was the excuse it gave me to reread aloud all those children’s books which I had so much enjoyed the first time around – Beatrix Potter (whose Tailor of Gloucester was once ranked by A. J. P. Taylor with ‘the greatest masterpieces of Balzac’), Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and The Wind in the Willows, the last so popular that I think I read it six times in quick succession.

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