John Ferrar Holms

John Ferrar Holms (1897–1934) was a British literary critic.

Early life

He was born in India to a British civil servant and an Irish mother.[1] Holms was educated at Rugby School and Sandhurst. He was commissioned in 1915 as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry,[2] and awarded the Military Cross in 1917.[3] In March 1918 he was captured and was held as a prisoner of war at Mainz Citadel with, among others, Hugh Kingsmill, J. Milton Hayes and Alec Waugh.[4]

Career

He published literary criticism in the Calendar of Modern Letters between 1925 and 1927 and one short story titled "A Death." He was associated with Djuna Barnes, Edwin Muir, Emily Coleman, Antonia White, and Peggy Guggenheim. Holms was Peggy Guggenheim's lover from 1928 to his sudden death in 1934. Djuna Barnes dedicated her novel Nightwood to Holms and Guggenheim. His time spent at the 14th-Century manor Hayford Hall in Devon, in 1932 and 1933 with Djuna Barnes and Emily Coleman had a profound effect on Barnes and Nightwood.[1]

gollark: Actually, I think they would need to somehow directly induce quaila by neural interface.
gollark: Neither does slightly differently shaped images.
gollark: That standard means that adjusting monitor settings, screen readers or thing 3 are modification.
gollark: Too bad for them, they aren't directly piping photons into my face.
gollark: I mean why is it modifying the site.

References

  1. Stange, Marina (2005). ""Melancholia, melancholia": Changing Black Bile in Black Ink in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood". In Podnieks, Elizabeth; Chait, Sandra (eds.). Hayford Hall: hangovers, erotics, and modernist aesthetics. Southern Illinois University. ISBN 9780809326464.
  2. "No. 29377". The London Gazette. 23 November 1915. p. 11602.
  3. "No. 30001". The London Gazette. 23 March 1917. p. 2984.
  4. Waugh, Alex (2012) Thirteen Such Years A&C Black
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