Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell
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Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell (1904–94), writer and aesthete, spent some years in the 1930s in Peking, and wrote several works on Chinese theatre and poetry. He later settled at his family home at La Pietra, near Florence. His publications include poems:
Aquarium (1923) and
This Chaos (1930); fiction, which includes a novel set in Peking,
Peonies and Ponies (1941) and
Tit for Tat and Other Tales (1972, short stories); and historical studies, which include
The Last Medici (1932) and
The Bourbons of Naples (1956).
Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948) and
More Memoirs (1970) are autobiographies.
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