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Frederick William Rolfe

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Frederick William Rolfe 1860-1913, English novelist, also known as Baron Corvo. After a vain attempt to become a priest, Rolfe earned a living painting and teaching before he began to write under the name Baron Corvo. His most famous work is the novel Hadrian the Seventh (1904), which chronicles the life of Arthur Rose, who, although rejected for the priesthood, eventually becomes pope. One of the strangest novels in English, Hadrian the Seventh was dramatized by Peter Luke in 1967 and successfully produced in London and New York. Rolfe's bizarre, abusive, and erudite personality is revealed... Read more
Rolfe, Frederick William
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860–1913), who...equally misleadingly, Fr Rolfe. His most outstanding novel...wish-fulfilment, in which Rolfe's protagonist, George Arthur...Venice (1934), in which Rolfe describes his own poverty... Read more
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