The Flesh and the Spirit
FIONA McLEOD did not exist, said John Reid from 1YA in the first of a series of talks, Bypaths of Literature. She was the creation of one of the most unusual literary figures of the ’90’s, William Sharp. He gave her style, habits -looks even-and cloaked her in Celtic mysticism. Fiona McLeod (nee William Sharp)g has left writing in which there is an element of greatness; William Sharp (died William Sharp) was little more than a literary man-about-town. Which of the two existed-William Sharp who lived a short space and is now forgotten, or Fiona McLeod who had no substance except in the minds of her creator and those who read her writing, yet whose work still enjoys its "immortal hour’? John Reid’s talks are a delight to listen to. Learned but never pedantic, he manages. to pass on to the listener his own enthusiasm.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 370, 26 July 1946, Page 15
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150The Flesh and the Spirit New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 370, 26 July 1946, Page 15
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