Robert Liddell

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John (Jock) Robert Liddell (born October 13, 1908 - died July 23, 1992) was a British writer, best known for his criticism of the novel, and for his biography of the poet Cavafy. He was also a novelist, travel writer and poet.

He was educated at Haileybury School and the University of Oxford. In the early 1930s he was a close friend of Barbara Pym, while working in the Bodleian Library. He appears as Dr. Nicholas Parnell, a character in one of her novels.

During World War II he was one of the Cairo poets. After the war he resided in Athens.

[edit] Works

  • A Treatise on the Novel (1947)
  • The Last Enchantments (1949)
  • Unreal City (1952)
  • Some Principles Of Fiction (1953)
  • Aegean Greece (1954)
  • The Novels of I Compton-Burnett (1955)
  • Byzantium and Istanbul (1956)
  • The Morea (1958)
  • Old and New Athens by Demetrios Sicilianos (1960) translator
  • The Novels of Jane Austen (1963)
  • Mainland Greece (1965)
  • The Deep End (1968) novel
  • Stepsons (1969) novel
  • Cavafy (1974) biography
  • The Novels Of George Eliot (1977)
  • Elizabeth & Ivy (1986)
  • The Aunts (1987)
  • The Abbe Trigrane by Ferdinand Fabre (1988) translator
  • Mind at ease: Barbara Pym and her novels (1989)
  • Twin Spirits: The Novels of Emily and Anne Bronte (1990)
  • Kind Relations (1994)
  • The Rivers of Babylon (1995)
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