Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring (7 January 1887 – 9 April 1960) was an English writer and journalist.

Early life Goldring was born in Greenwich, England. He was educated initially at Hurstpierpoint, Magdalen College School and for his secondary education Felsted. He went on to Oxford in 1906; having inherited a legacy he left Oxford without a degree, and moved to London to write. He first took an editorial position at Country Life magazine. In 1908 he also became a sub-editor for English Review edited by Ford Madox Ford (at that time still named Hueffer). He moved to Dublin, Ireland, and married there his first wife, Betty Duncan; they had two children (the elder, Hugh, was killed as a soldier in World War II). While in Dublin, Goldring witnessed the funeral of the Irish Republican activist Thomas Ashe, which he later wrote about in his book A Stranger in Ireland.

Later life In 1919 Goldring visited Germany for Clarté, Henri Barbusse's organisation.

Legacy Douglas Goldring's archive is now in the special collections of the University of Victoria, Canada.

Works A Country Boy and other poems (1910) Ways of Escape. A Book of Adventure (1911) Streets: a book of London verses (Max Goschen, 1912) The Permanent Uncle (1912) novel Dream Cities. Notes of an autumn tour in Italy and Dalmatia (1913) travel Along France's River of Romance: The Loire (1913) travel It's an Ill Wind (1915) novel In the Town. A Book of London Verses (1916) The Fortune (1917) novel including the experience of a fictional conscientious objector Dublin: Explorations and Reflections (1917) as "An Englishman" Polly (1917) A Stranger in Ireland (1918) as "An Englishman" The Black Curtain, novel Reputations (1920) essays The Solvent (1920) Briefe aus der Verbannung (1920) The Fight for Freedom, a play in four acts, with a preface by Henry Barbusse (1920) James Elroy Flecker (1922) Nobody Knows (1923) novel Miss Linn (1924) novel Gone Abroad – A story of travel chiefly in Italy and The Balearic Isles (1925) travel Cuckoo (1926) novel The Merchant of Souls (1926) novel Northern Lights and Southern Shade (1926) travel Façade (1928) novel The French Riviera (1928) People and Places (1929) Sardinia: the island of the Nuraghi (1930) travel Impacts: The Trip to the States and Other Adventures of Travel (1931) Liberty & Licensing. Hobby Horse Number One (1932) pamphlet To Portugal (1934) Royal London (1935) Odd Man Out (1935) autobiography Pot Luck in England (1936) Facing the Odds (1940) Artist Quarter: reminiscences of Montmartre and Montparnasse in the first two decades of the twentieth century (1941) by Charles Douglas (Douglas Goldring with Charles Beadle) South Lodge: reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review circle (1943) memoirs A Tour in Northumbria (1944) The Nineteen Twenties (1945) retrospect and memoir Journeys in the Sun (1946) Marching with the Times: 1931–1946 (1947) memoirs The Last Pre-Raphaelite: a record of the life and writings of Ford Madox Ford (1948) Life Interests (1948) Home Ground—A Journey Through the Heart of England (1949) Foreign Parts: an Autumn Tour in France (1950) Regency Portrait Painter: the Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A. (1951) Three Romantic Countries: Reminiscences of travel in Dalmatia, Ireland and Portugal (1951) The South of France. The Lower Rhone Valley and the Mediterranean Seaboard from Martigues to Menton (1952) Privileged Persons (1955)