"I LIVED the first six years of my life in the small eighteenth-century house at No. 6 The Grove, Highgate. This garden is still for me the imagined background for almost any garden scene that I read of in books"-thus Roger Fry began a fragment of autobiography. We may pause for a moment on the threshold of that small house at Highgate to ask what we can learn about him before he became conscious both of the serpent which bent down "from the fork of a peculiarly withered and soot begrimed old apple tree", and of the "large ...
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"I LIVED the first six years of my life in the small eighteenth-century house at No. 6 The Grove, Highgate. This garden is still for me the imagined background for almost any garden scene that I read of in books"-thus Roger Fry began a fragment of autobiography. We may pause for a moment on the threshold of that small house at Highgate to ask what we can learn about him before he became conscious both of the serpent which bent down "from the fork of a peculiarly withered and soot begrimed old apple tree", and of the "large red oriental poppies which by some blessed chance" grew in his "private and particular garden". He was born on 14th December 1866, the second son of Edward Fry and of Mariabella, the daughter of Thomas Hodgkin. Both were Quakers. Behind Roger on his father's side were eight recorded generations of Frys, beginning with that Zephaniah, the first to become a Quaker, in whose house in Wiltshire George Fox held "a very blessed meeting, and quiet, though the officers had purposed to break it up, and were on their way in order thereunto. But before they got to it, word was brought them, that there was a house just broken up by thieves, and they were required to go back again with speed. . . ." That was in 1663, and from that time onwards the Frys held the Quaker faith and observed certain marked peculiarities both of opinion and of dress, for which, in the early days, they endured considerable persecution. The first of them, Zephaniah, was in prison for three months for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. As time went on the persecution weakened; they had nothing worse to suffer than the "sneers and coldness of their own class"; but whatever they suffered they abode by their convictions consistently.
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Add this copy of Roger Fry to cart. $9.56, very good condition, Sold by Phatpocket Limited rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham Abbey, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1992 by Random House (UK).
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Add this copy of Roger Fry: a Biography to cart. $12.85, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by The Hogarth Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 9780701209483.
Add this copy of Roger Fry to cart. $21.92, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1979 by Penguin Books.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN: 0140551662.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 070120320X.
Add this copy of Roger Fry: a Biography to cart. $40.84, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1969 by The Hogarth Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 070120320X.
Add this copy of Roger Fry to cart. $7.22, good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2003 by Vintage Classics.
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Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches. Textblock has tanning. Content has tanning but still in very good readable condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Vintage Lives.
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New. The last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death, " Roger Fry, is her one serious full-length biography. In her introduction Diane F. Gillespie traces Woolf's work on the biography and provides a history of its critical reception. Appendices contain previously unpublished memoirs by Fry, a draft portrait of him by Woolf, and the list in variants include those to be found in the extensive typescript version of the biography.
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Fair in Missing jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Ex-library book with light to moderate shelf wear with usual stamps and markings. No dust jacket. Photos and additional details upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.
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Very good. A Biography. Foreword by Margery Fry. 8vo. Green cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Frontis (Fry self-portrait, circa 1926). 307 pages, with Appendix and Index. Illustrated. Spine and top quarter of both covers are toned. Corners are bumped. Front hinge starting. The half-title page and verso of last Index page are browned. No names, or marks to text. Lacking the dust-jacket.
