Charles Ritchie (1906–1995)
Autore di Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973
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Opere di Charles Ritchie
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 (2008) — Autore — 70 copie
Opere correlate
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 551 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ritchie, Charles Stewart Almon
- Data di nascita
- 1906-09-23
- Data di morte
- 1995-06-07
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Washington, D.C., USA - Istruzione
- University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Oxford (Pembroke College)
Harvard University
École libre des sciences politiques, France - Attività lavorative
- diplomat
diarist - Relazioni
- Bowen, Elizabeth (lover)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Companion of the Order of Canada (1969)
- Breve biografia
- Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was Canada’s ambassador to West Germany (1954-1958), Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1958-1962), ambassador to the United States during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (1962-1966), ambassador to the North Atlantic Council (1966-1967) and from 1967 to 1971 was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in London. While Ritchie's career as a diplomat marked him as an important person in the history of Canadian foreign relations, he became famous through the publication of his diaries, first The Siren Years, and then three follow-ups. In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He received honorary doctorates Trent University (1976), York University (1992) and Carleton University (1992).
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Recensioni
The Siren Years: a Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945 di Charles Ritchie
Diary is the growing up of a government official working in the Canadian embassy in England during WWII. Fascinating read!
An Alphabet of Saints is an alphabet book containing one saint for every letter of the alphabet from Anthony of Padua to Zita. Each saint has a picture with a short description as well as several rhyming lines of verse about their lives. In that it is very much a book of its time. What is remarkable now is that it was geared towards children, whereas our educational system has changed so much in the ensuing century that kind of doggrel is encountered much later, if at all.
Although it is technically a children's book, the level of writing means that it is equally enjoyable for adults with an interest in poetry. The art nouveau print illustrations are also worth a view. Recommended for Benson fans as well as those looking for solid Catholic children's books.… (altro)
Although it is technically a children's book, the level of writing means that it is equally enjoyable for adults with an interest in poetry. The art nouveau print illustrations are also worth a view. Recommended for Benson fans as well as those looking for solid Catholic children's books.… (altro)
Charming Canadiana.
The first half of the book, set in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the mid-1920s, reads as if it were written by a minor male character (an ineffectual teenager) in the "Anne of Green Gables" books.
The second half of the book follows the same "character" across the ocean to England, to college days in Oxford, where he now takes on the mannerisms of an undergraduate in an early Evelyn Waugh novel.
The first half of the book, set in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the mid-1920s, reads as if it were written by a minor male character (an ineffectual teenager) in the "Anne of Green Gables" books.
The second half of the book follows the same "character" across the ocean to England, to college days in Oxford, where he now takes on the mannerisms of an undergraduate in an early Evelyn Waugh novel.
Ritchie published four volumes of diaries that chronicled his life from youth to retirement. This volume covers his time with the Canadian Department of External Affairs during the years 1962-1971. In this time period he was the Canadian ambassador to Washington where he dealt with President Kennedy who was having many issues with the Canadian prime minister, John Diefenbaker at the time. Interestingly, Ritchie who I suspect was a Conservative, did not like Diefenbaker and was relieved when Dief was defeated in 1963.
Ritchie also dealt with President Lyndon Johnson and was a witness to the infamous dressing down of mild mannered Prime Minister Mike Pearson by Johnson but Ritchie disputes the story that Johnson lifted Pearson off the ground by his shirt collar. He does confirm Johnson was very angry with a speech Pearson had made about the US bombing of North Vietnam.
Ritchie was later the Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain and was there for the first visit by Pierre Trudeau as the Prime Minister of Canada. In England, he continued his relationship with the British poet Elizabeth Bowen. He also describes his loving relationship with his wife Sylvia and when she was away, how empty the house seemed.
The diary is funny, full of cryptic observations of the famous and not so famous.… (altro)
Ritchie also dealt with President Lyndon Johnson and was a witness to the infamous dressing down of mild mannered Prime Minister Mike Pearson by Johnson but Ritchie disputes the story that Johnson lifted Pearson off the ground by his shirt collar. He does confirm Johnson was very angry with a speech Pearson had made about the US bombing of North Vietnam.
Ritchie was later the Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain and was there for the first visit by Pierre Trudeau as the Prime Minister of Canada. In England, he continued his relationship with the British poet Elizabeth Bowen. He also describes his loving relationship with his wife Sylvia and when she was away, how empty the house seemed.
The diary is funny, full of cryptic observations of the famous and not so famous.… (altro)
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- Voto
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- ISBN
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