Background
Frederic Manning was born on July 22, 1882, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was the fourth son of William Patrick Manning, financier, and politician, and his wife Honora. His elder brother was Henry.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Frederic Manning was educated privately except for six months at Sydney Grammar School.
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This is the first time that Frederic Manning's masterpiece about World War I has appeared in America. The novel was first published in England in 1929 with no author's name on the title page. The edition was 520 copies, privately printed because the bluntness of language was thought to make the book unfit for public distribution. It is blunt. And it is profound, rich, moving, honest and superbly written. Hemingway said he re-read it every year.
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Frederic Manning was born on July 22, 1882, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was the fourth son of William Patrick Manning, financier, and politician, and his wife Honora. His elder brother was Henry.
Frederic Manning was educated privately except for six months at Sydney Grammar School. At the age of fifteen, he went to England with his tutor Reverend Arthur Galton. He introduced Manning to such contemporary literary figures as Max Beerbohm and William Butler Yeats.
Fredric Manning’s first published work was a collection of poetry, The Virgil of Brunhild, which was issued in 1907. This sixty-page narrative poem follows the character Brunhild, who is condemned to death. As she is about to die, she is visited by a priest to whom she recounts her experiences. Manning’s contemporaries, including the notable critic and poet Ezra Pound, praised this traditional poem, but it achieved only modest success. The second collection of poetry, simply titled Poems, was published in 1910.
Manning's next work was a collection of philosophical essays framed as fictional dialogues between men, long deceased, whose thoughts and opinions have remained influential throughout history. They include Socrates, Thomas Cromwell, Machiavelli, St. Francis of Assisi, and Pope Leo XIII. Scenes and Portraits, published in 1909, contains six dialogues that critically examine attitudes about life and literature. Critics, praising the book as inventive and eloquent, compared Manning to such philosophers as Walter Pater and Anatole France.
When World War l broke out, Manning enlisted in the British Army. Although his social position merited that he be offered a commission as an officer, he chose to remain a private, feeling unqualified to lead others. He served in the trenches with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on the battlefronts in Somme and Ancre from 1916 to 1917. In 1917 he finally accepted a commission as a subaltern with an Irish regiment, but a year later he resigned due to poor health and returned to England.
In 1917 a third collection of Manning’s poetry was published. Eidola includes poems about the war and a handful of pieces published just before it started. Through even these early works run both a current of sorrow and a sense of exaltation in beauty. The poem The Sign, for example, is about the human ability to find beauty and spirituality even in such horrific environments as those Manning witnessed during the war. Some of the poems in this volume - such as Grotesque, Leaves, The Trenches, and A Shell - portray realistic scenes of the war, anticipating Manning’s later World War I novel.
More than a decade after Manning resigned from the military his friend and editor Peter Davies suggested that he write about his war experiences. The result was Manning’s most famous work, a fictional novel loosely based on his time on the front in France. The Middle Parts of Fortune was issued by subscription in 1929, followed by an expurgated version titled Her Privates We in 1930. Both versions were published under the pseudonym Private 19022. Although Manning wished to conceal his identity, an admirer, T. E. Lawrence (also known as Lawrence of Arabia), recognized his style from previous works and word spread about Manning’s authorship. Nonetheless, an edition that formally acknowledged Manning as the author did not appear until 1946, a decade after his death.
Manning also wrote one nonfiction work, a biography of a British naval shipbuilder. The Life of Sir William White, published in 1923, covers 1885 to 1902, a busy naval shipbuilding period.
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1929Frederic Manning was raised in a Catholic family.
Frederic Manning was a private person.
Physical Characteristics: Frederic Manning was a lifelong asthmatic.
Frederic Manning didn't have his own family.