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Article: IN SEARCH OF CYRIL CONNOLLY'S GENERATION.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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THE historian, Sir Steven Runciman was, I think, the last survivor of Cyril Connolly's contemporaries in College at Eton, the schoolboys of Enemies of Promise. Possibly in some distant shire one still remains, but he would need to be almost of Queen Mother vintage. Lord Hailsham, now in his early nineties, overlapped for two years with Connolly at Eton. Connolly went on to become a critic whose work was a powerful force in the mid-twentieth century, and to publish the autobiographical book about the writer's life which made him famous.
About ten years ago, like many other people, I was contemplating writing a life of Connolly. I decided to contact old men who had ...