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Firbank

British  
/ ˈfɜːbæŋk /

noun

  1. ( Arthur Annesley ) Ronald . 1886–1926, English novelist, whose works include Valmouth (1919), The Flower beneath the Foot (1923), and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The three great gigglers: Proust, Firbank and Chekhov.

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2020

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

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

For had not he himself, though only a youth of twenty-two, been one of the appointed preachers at Firbank Chapel?

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)

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