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Strange Flowers guide to London: part 1
We’re hitting the road, people! Being engaged, as I am, with trying to evoke the lives of a disparate group of people whose common denominators are relative obscurity and wilful eccentricity is...
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Pages: Frederick Rolfe’s Reviews of Unwritten Books
Even among the exceptional works of singular English writer Frederick Rolfe, a.k.a. Baron Corvo, this is an oddity. First, it’s not one book, but four. Second, although of relatively recent vintage...
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Pearls: Frederick Rolfe
image by Giovanni Dall’Orto What do I care for the world, that I should plane my prominences down to fit its narrow groove? Have you not realized yet that it is not an ordinary, but an extra-ordinary...
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Doubles: Frederick Rolfe
The original In person he was somewhat short and spare; he wore glasses which accentuated a myopic expression; moreover there was a cold shyness in his manner, due, as I found out later, to the fear...
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Doubles: R. H. Benson
The original Those who have heard Hugh Benson preach will not easily forget the impression. The boyish face with the shock of untidy-looking hair, the slight figure, and the somewhat awkward poise,...
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Corvo’s cult century
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people? - Marlene Dietrich as Tana in Touch of Evil It is very much in the spirit of Frederick Rolfe to remember him, like a Catholic...
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Pages: The Play of Hadrian VII
Now We Are Pope, Martin Foreman’s one-man show about Frederick Rolfe‘s Venetian exile, recently completed a London run and is now headed to the Edinburgh Fringe. “Although the play itself is a work of...
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15 books for 2015
Edith Olivier at the entrance to Daye House by Rex Whistler Happy new year! In the first full week of 2015, by the light of the first full moon, here’s a look at some of the more interesting books...
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Secret Satan book list
Strange Flowers is feeling kinda service-y, so here is a bumper list of suggestions for enlivening your seasonal gift-giving. For instance, when you get the inevitable work mail about Secret Santa,...
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Secret Satan, 2019
The Feast Day of Saint Quentin of Crisp is already behind us, so it’s high time we got naughty, nice and nasty with our annual seasonal book list. I’m not going to lie – this year Satan’s little...
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