Cummings, Bruce Frederick

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Cummings, Bruce Frederick (1889–1919), diarist and biologist, known under his pseudonym of W. N. P. Barbellion as the author of a diary covering the years 1903–17, The Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919), with an introduction by H. G. Wells. It is largely an account of the author's struggle with an illness (diagnosed as disseminated sclerosis) that made him increasingly introspective; he alternates between moods of elation, egotism, self-disgust, and physical nausea, leading more and more of a substitute existence through his diaries. His A Last Diary (1920, ed. A. J. and H. R. Cummings) covers the last two years of his life.

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