Frank Harris

Frank Harris with his book My Life and Loves scandalised Britain, Europe and America in the 1920s. Notwithstanding his reputation as a rogue and womaniser, he was an entertaining writer and individual who was always his own man.

1.   “The Fifth Volume of Frank Harris My Life and Loves”, An irreverent treatment by Alexander Trocchi

2.   My Life, vol 2, Frank Harris

Notes

Addresses: Villa et Boulevard Edouard VII Nice

Names: Alfred Russell Wallace

1881 in Argenteuil

Grosvenor Hotel London Gray’s Inn

Russell Lowell, American Ambassador

p.330 - “one winter Dilke lent me his villa at the Cap Brun near Toulon. I invited Percy Ffrench of Monivea, who had once been British Embassador at Madrid”

1889 - Robert Browning’s funeral  - the papers give the names of people who attended (for instance, Bret Harte)

Aimée Desclée

Frank Harris wrote a biography of Oscar Wilde (His Life and Confessions)

“Madame Laguerre, Marguerite Durant, a friend of mine years before 1888″ 

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