Firbank

British

/ ˈfɜːbæŋk /

noun

( 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)

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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

He had an extraordinary memory for dates and events – and quotations, particularly from Ronald Firbank.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2017

Marx in a punt, Firbank aloud round the gas-ring.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2014

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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