Jerrold, Douglas
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(1893-1964) UK publisher and author, in active service during World War One; great-grandson of Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857). His Near-Future Storm over Europe (1930) expresses – through the history of Cisalpania, a Ruritania caught in the liberalizing trammels of twentieth-century thought and politics, until monarchy is restored – an anti-semitic, conservative Roman Catholic view of history which his contemporaries thought eccentrically intense. The tale is fervent rather in the manner of G K Chesterton's similarly doctrinal fables. In 1954 he declared Arnold J Toynbee (1889-1975) a traitor to the Christian world. [JC]
Douglas Francis Jerrold
born Scarborough, North Yorkshire: 3 August 1893
died London: 21 July 1964
works
- Storm over Europe (London: Ernest Benn, 1930) [hb/]
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