The text that follows is, so far as current scholarship can determine, the only surviving fragment of The Complete and Collected Works of Patrick Knightsworth. All remaining manuscripts, proofs, typesettings, correspondence, and production materials were lost in the fire that consumed the Knightsworth Estate repositories and the Lloyd’s Banking Company archival strongrooms on 12 February 2019.
Tag: writers
Do not pad ignorance with eloquence
Yesterday afternoon I found myself in that peculiarly liminal space between the end of one book and the beginning of another. I am usually careful to set up my next read well in advance, however, on this particular occasion, I’d hit a dead end. There are more books on the shelf in the living room than there is time…
Cooking George Orwell’s Long Lost Kidney Stew Recipe
On the day following King George V’s Silver Jubilee celebrations, 6th May 1935, George Orwell took a break from writing A Clergyman’s Daughter to type a letter to his friend and one-time romantic interest, Brenda Salkeld. Among Orwell’s usual topics of discussion (politics, literature, and low-culture) the author outlined what he described as a “wonderful” ox-kidney…