Alexander Baron, Rosie Hogarth

Andrew Whitehead

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1951

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Alexander Baron’s literary reputation rests on the humanity of his novels of the Second World War and the grittiness of his depiction of post-war London. Rosie Hogarth is in many ways a work of transition, straddling the two main themes of Baron’s fiction. His first novel From the City, From the Plough, which sold massively when published in 1948, is a powerful account of the infantry man’s experience of D-Day four years earlier. His 1963 novel, The Lowlife, about an obsessive Jewish gambler living in Dalston, one of the grimier districts of inner London, has become a cult classic and is the work for which he is now best remembered. Rosie Hogarth, which appeared in 1951, is not a war novel, yet the …

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Citation: Whitehead, Andrew. "Rosie Hogarth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 June 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=29774, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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