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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Firefighters also attended and ventilated the Firbank Road school.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2022

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

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

He must stay with me and I will bring him to Firbank Chapel on Sunday.

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

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