Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Sarah Jane Hughes (University of East Anglia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 24 May 1852
Died 20 Mar 1936
Activity 1872-1936

Places

Born in Scotland
Active in Argentina; England; Scotland; Morocco

Activities

Primary

Member of Parliament
Politician
Reformer
Story-writer
Travel writer

Resources

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham had the sort of career it is almost impossible to imagine today: traveller, adventurer, rancher, horse-dealer, radical politician and elegant writer of nearly 30 books, including almost 200 short stories and sketches. Celebrated by everyone from Joseph Conrad to George Bernard Shaw (both of whom based writing on Cunninghame Graham’s tales – Shaw’s play

His biographers Cedric Watts and Laurence Davis labelled him both sceptic and idealist, calling him “a mixture of Hamlet and Don Quixote” (Watts & Davies, 2008, pxiii), while his close friend GK Chesterton remarked: “Cunninghame Graham achieved the adventure of being Cunninghame Graham” (Watts & Davies, 2008, pxiii). This, then, is …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

2780 words

Citation: Hughes, Sarah Jane. "Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 January 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1097, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here