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Frederick Rolfe

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Also known as Fr. Austin, Baron Corvo Rolfe, Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo, A. Crab Maid, Fr. Rolfe, Frank English, Frederick Austin

British writer, photographer and historian (1860-1913)

Person · Open Library

Born
22 July 1860
Died
25 October 1913
Works
83

Top works

  • Letters to R. M. Dawkins
  • A letter to Father Beauclerk
  • The Cardinal prefect of propaganda
  • The bull against the enemy of the Anglican race
  • Hadrian the Seventh

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1963-04-18
composer

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Quotes

  • It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
  • Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.
  • He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.
  • An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
  • That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.
  • Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

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date of birth
1860-07-22
date of death
1913-10-25
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Frederick Rolfe
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Frederick Rolfe
pseudonym
Ifor Williams
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