Background
Winnington, G. Peter was born on August 15, 1944 in Nottingham, England. Son of George Edward and Nancy (Winder) Winnington.
(This is no ordinary biography. Using unpublished sources,...)
This is no ordinary biography. Using unpublished sources, Peter Winnington reveals the life of Walter Fuller, whom the BBC chose to edit its Radio Times. Covering the first quarter of the 20th century, the unfolding story takes us from the birth of student representation and the revival of folksong (first as entertainment, then as social protest) to the anti-war movement in America, for which Fuller produced innovative propaganda. The US harshly repressed its pacifists and conscientious objectors. To defend them, Fuller imported from Britain the concept of civil liberties, and his wife Crystal Eastman co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union. Back in England after WWI, Fuller was headhunted for his ideas by the BBC, where he helped shape its public image and gave Radio Times a format which lasted for fifty years. This account throws new light on the development of social and political ideas which still affect our lives today. Counterpointing this story is the life of Fuller's sister Rosalind, whose philosophy of free love had the seal of approval of Lord Bertrand Russell. She inspired in Scott Fitzgerald the story that paid for his wedding, entranced John Barrymore when she played Ophelia to his Hamlet on Broadway, and caused Nobel Prize winner Sir Norman Angell to tell a whopper in his autobiography. "Highly readable and carefully researched" - Martin Ceadel, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford. G. Peter Winnington's previous books have included biography and literary criticism. Of his life of Mervyn Peake, the TLS declared: "Winnington is good not only as a biographer but as a critic" too.
https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Fuller-Man-Who-Ideas/dp/2970065428/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Winnington+walter+%3Cfuller&qid=1610231437&sr=8-1
2014
(Harriet Martineau (the feminist and thinker 'who made the...)
Harriet Martineau (the feminist and thinker 'who made the nineteenth century the dawn of freedom for half the human race') was certainly the most intelligent woman of her time, and she argued with uncompromising logic (which led her to abandon all religious faith, for instance). Between 1834 and 1836, Martineau travelled throughout America, interviewing everyone she met, from the President down to a black slave girl. On her return she wrote Society in America (1837), a pioneering work of sociology. (For his contemporaneous Démocratie en Amérique, de Tocqueville spoke only to white men, and in broken English at that.) Because she was very deaf, she took with her a companion-cum-assistant whom she referred to (in her Autobiography) as 'Miss J'. Martineau described Miss J as 'remarkably clever, supremely rational, and with a faultless temper, ' and admitted that she 'owed' Society in America to her. They became life-long friends, yet she was first named in print only in 1935; a Martineau scholar mis-identified her as recently as 2007. Using previously unexploited books and letters, Peter Winnington uncovers the life of Miss J, who was an orphan by the age of nine; she was brought up by caring relatives. But she was well connected, being the niece of Samuel Courtauld, who founded the company bearing his name that became Britain's largest manufacturer of women's underwear. Miss J's schoolfriend, Mary Barnes, married the Unitarian minister and writer, John Relly Beard, and Miss J married his assistant, James McKee. For their daughter Ellen, Harriet Martineau seems to have served as a kind of honorary aunt. Encouraged by her cousin Peter Taylor and his wife Mentia ('the mother' of the English women's parliamentary suffrage movement), Ellen McKee embarked on a life directed towards giving women a voice in local government, becoming one of fewer than thirty women elected to the London School Board during the thirty years of its existence. In this context she also sought to provide suitable facilities for London's physically impaired children, particularly the deaf, just as her friend Mary Dendy (John Relly Beard's granddaughter) was doing in Manchester at exactly the same time. Thus both women were working (in the Beard tradition) toward what Harriet Martineau would have wanted. In telling the lives of Miss J and her daughter, this book reveals previously unnoticed connections between famous people, and an unrecorded episode in Harriet Martineau's life when she attempted to use Mesmerism to help one of Miss J's aunts.
https://www.amazon.com/Harriet-Martineau-Miss-Ellen-McKee/dp/297013070X
2019
(Love in the Revolution tells a series of (historically) t...)
Love in the Revolution tells a series of (historically) true love stories between Russians and Anglo-Saxons. They are all different, all quite remarkable, and all set against the violent background of the Russian revolution of 1917. In more than one case, the love affair enabled a Russian woman to escape from Soviet Russia, saving her from persecution, a slow death in a labour camp, or simply execution. Three of them by way of example: Max Eastman spent two years in Russia. At the last moment, just before his train departed, he married a Russian girl, enabling her to leave the country with him. They remained together for the rest of their lives. Her brother happened to be Russia's Deputy Commissar of Justice and assistant Procurator General, the notorious Nikolai Krylenko, who ordered the execution of countless innocent people. In 1917, between the February and October revolutions, Arthur Ransome - later a famous author of children's books, but at the time just a newspaper correspondent in Saint Petersburg - managed to obtain false passports for twin girls and their granny so that they could flee to their native Poland. One of the girls went on to marry an Oscar-winning composer, while the other - well, you'll have to read the book. Ransome himself fell in love with Trotsky's secretary. The Foreign Office agreed to put her on his passport, so she could escape, knowing full well that he was already married. Once divorced, he married her, and she lived with him in England, supporting his writing. In the autumn of 1913, the British Ambassador in Saint Petersburg invited the famous prima ballerina of the Ballets Russes to a dinner party. There she met the Embassy's Head of Chancery. They fell in love and, although she was already married, had a child together. Five years later, having finally obtained a divorce, she married her diplomat-lover. Then they and their little boy made a nail-biting escape from Soviet Russia, by horse and cart, arriving at the coast with five minutes to spare before the last British Navy ship departed. Once in England, she co-founded what became the Royal Academy of Dancing, and coached Britain's most famous ballerinas. Many of these stories have been told before, in different places. Bringing them together like this reveals previously unnoticed connections between them. There is also much in this book that is quite new.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Revolution-Stories-Russians-Anglo-Saxons/dp/2970130718/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Winnington+Love+in+the&qid=1610231845&s=books&sr=1-1
2020
(In this highly illustrated new paperback edition, Peake's...)
In this highly illustrated new paperback edition, Peake's son Sebastian Peake has collaborated with Alison Eldred and G. Peter Winnington, author of an highly acclaimed biography of Mervyn Peake, to compile a stunning collection of illustrations, paintings, photographs, letters, notebook pages and other material much of which has never been published to produce a unique memoir of the artist s life...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FKYJRYG/?tag=2022091-20
( The acclaimed biography, complete with newly-discovered...)
The acclaimed biography, complete with newly-discovered illustrations by Mervyn Peake. The result of 25 years research into the life and work of Mervyn Peake, this is, moreover, the first biography authorized by the Mervyn Peake Estate. Now in paperback, this fully revised and updated edition also contains a huge range of illustrations and Peake memorabilia that has been unearthed by the family. Vast Alchemies promises to be the definitive work on one of the world's most memorable writers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0720613418/?tag=2022091-20
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Winnington, G. Peter was born on August 15, 1944 in Nottingham, England. Son of George Edward and Nancy (Winder) Winnington.
Master of Arts, University Lausanne, 1970.
Teacher Gymnase de la Cite, Lausanne, 1965-1972. Lecturer English department University Lausanne, 1972—2009. Director language center University Lausanne, 1989-1993.
(Harriet Martineau (the feminist and thinker 'who made the...)
2019(In this highly illustrated new paperback edition, Peake's...)
(Love in the Revolution tells a series of (historically) t...)
2020( The acclaimed biography, complete with newly-discovered...)
The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake’s imagination. Liverpool UP, (distributed in the USA by Chicago UP).
(Hardback isbn 1-84631-022-9; paperback isbn 1-84631-030-x)
2006(This is no ordinary biography. Using unpublished sources,...)
2014Member Society Authors.
Married Martine Aubort, 1973 (divorced, 1996). Children: Mark, Eric.