Firbank
Britishnoun
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I currently await delivery of a larky 1930s novel called “Frolic Wind” by one Richard Oke, whom contemporary reviewers likened to Ronald Firbank and Evelyn Waugh.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2019
Marx in a punt, Firbank aloud round the gas-ring.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
The rococo combination gives the ballet a high-camp fascination, resembling the prose of Ronald Firbank.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2012
I'm potty about Ronald Firbank, and the first person to have access to all his papers was this woman, Miriam Benkovitz.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2012
From Drawwell he accompanied them to Firbank Chapel, the following Sunday forenoon.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
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