Maurice Baring (Wikipedia) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. He was the eighth child, and fifth son, of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel, granddaughter of the second Earl Grey. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After an abortive start on a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia. He reported as an eye-witness on the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post. At the start of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as assistant to Trenchard. In 1918 Baring served as a staff officer in the Royal Air Force and was appointed OBE. In 1925 Baring received an honorary commission as a wing commander in the Reserve of Air Force Officers. After the war he enjoyed a period of success as a dramatist, and began to write novels. He suffered from chronic illness in the last years of his life; for the final 15 years of his life he was debilitated by Parkinson's Disease. He was widely connected socially, to some of the Cambridge Apostles, to The Coterie, and to the literary group around G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in particular. He was staunch in his anti-intellectualism with respect to the arts, and a convinced practical joker. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1909, being received into the church by Fr. Bowden at the Brompton Oratory. He described his conversion as "the only action in my life which I am quite certain I have never regretted." Baring became a novelist late in his life, but went on to find success in that genre, as well as in playwriting. In France his novel Daphne Adene ran to over twenty printings.
142 works Add another?
Most Editions
|
First Published
|
Most Recent
|
Random
Showing all works by author. Would you like to see only ebooks?
-
First published in 1911 13 editions — 4 previewable
-
First published in 1911 11 editions — 3 previewable
-
First published in 1920 8 editions — 2 previewable
-
First published in 1933 8 editions
-
First published in 1910 8 editions — 2 previewable
-
First published in 1924 8 editions
-
First published in 1910 8 editions — 2 previewable
-
First published in 1909 7 editions — 3 previewable
-
First published in 1914 7 editions — 4 previewable
-
First published in 1922 7 editions — 5 previewable
-
First published in 1923 6 editions — 1 previewable
-
First published in 1907 5 editions — 3 previewable
-
First published in 1922 5 editions — 2 previewable
-
First published in 1930 5 editions
-
First published in 1921 5 editions — 1 previewable
-
First published in 1926 5 editions
-
First published in 1934 4 editions — 1 previewable
-
First published in 1925 4 editions
-
First published in 1931 4 editions — 1 previewable
-
First published in 1905 4 editions — 4 previewable
Maurice Baring
×Close
Subjects
Accessible book, History and criticism, English poetry, Fiction, Fiction, general, English drama, Literature, Poetry, Protected DAISY, English Authors, English literature, Fairy tales, History, Politics and government, Russian poetry, World War, 1914-1918, English fiction, French literature, Russian literature, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, British Personal narratives, Correspondence, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, QuotationsPeople
Maurice Baring (1874-1945), Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Robert Peckham Sir (1515-1569), Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), Auberon Thomas Herbert Lucas baron (1876-1916), Cecil E. R. Spencer (d. 1928), Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Juliet Duff Lady (1881-1965), Sarah Bernhardt, Victor Hugo (1802-1885)Time
20th century, 1894-1917, 1801-1917, 1894-, 19th century, Revolution, 1905-1907, Revolution, 1917-1921ID Numbers
- OLID: OL18295A
- ISNI: 0000000108570698
- VIAF: 44386303
- Wikidata: Q1363814
Links (outside Open Library)
September 30, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
March 31, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | add VIAF and wikidata ID |
June 25, 2012 | Edited by Neville Holmes | Minor tidy and Wikipedia link |
June 25, 2012 | Edited by Neville Holmes | merge authors |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |