A: The Man Within (1929)

 GG was 25yo (‘I was married and I was happy... In the evenings I worked at The Times [reviewing films? no, 1935], and in the mornings I worked on my third novel.’)

Writing to his future wife about it in 1926 he describes ‘a gorgeous long cold-blooded letter by an anonymous informer to the Admiralty’ which gave him the subject of The Man Within – ‘the hero of the novel has got to be an informer’. The letter must have taken him back instinctively to the betrayals involved in his time at St John’s.

11 chapters in three parts

original title: "Dear Sanity"

took two years to write

partly inspired by poem

 partly inspired by Harper's Smugglers

 [wikipedia] [goodreads] [editions/covers]

reviews w/spoilers: [astrofella]

 

[ad on back jacket of 'rumour at nightfall']

lighted turnip

oikia = house (Greek)

 

takes place 18thC?

Francis Andrews

Carlyon 

Elizabeth

deceased guardian 

Mrs Butler, charwoman

priest

Lewes

Mr Farne

Sir Henry Merriman

Lucy

 Sir Edward Parkin

Tims

Mr Hilliard

Mr Braddock

Good Chance, the ship

 

chapter six? GG wrote for the Times 'an account of a walking tour in Sussex, which was a spin-off from the sixth chapter of The Man Within, where Francis Andrews is making his way across the downs to Lewes. It was a curiously written piece, employing verse rhythms to create something close to a prose poem'