Evelyn Conlon
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30 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Evelyn Conlon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was while I was reclining into the meaning of memoir and autobiography that I remembered a thing relating to biography which I'd once tossed about.
Ah, The Missing Otto.
It was after I had read Tyrone Guthrie's A Life in Theatre and was fascinated by his ebullient description of his nuptials.
He wrote, On my return to England I married Judith Bretherton.
Her father was a lawyer of English North Country family.
Her mother was of Guernsey stock.
This book is a professional, not a personal document, but I think I may go so far as to say that we lived happily ever after.
while there is certainly little room for a voyeur to sneak in there between the cracks of the language.
We'll be having none of that drivel drowning this life.
But laudable and all as this private reticence can be, it does however allow for a misinterpretation of Judith's life, in much the same way as an effort was made to demean and dismiss Nora Barnacle.
Arthur Power wrote in Conversations with James Joyce, After going to the theatre, they often called in on the way home at the Café Francaise.
Arthur Power's editor corrected the sentence to read, After Joyce goes to the theatre, he often calls in at the Café Francaise.
Milan Kundera paints the poignant result of airbrushing in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Vladimir Klementis, a gentle, righteous sort of human being, gave his hat to Clement Gottwald to ward off the falling snow from the old man's head, just before they had a photograph taken in the old Czechoslovakia.
Vladimir then fell foul of the powers that be.
He was found guilty of a trumped-up charge of treason and he was executed in 1952.
And well before our present digital manipulation, the one that creates ridiculous unbody-like bodies, they airbrushed Vladimir clean out of the picture.
The only photographic record that remains of him is his hat on Gotwell's head.
And while sometimes one person in a public couple truly does live an adjacent but perpendicular life, Judith Guthrie did not in fact play the shrinking violet role.
Biography is of course totally subjective and the observer of the life creates the atmosphere as much by hint and omission as by inclusion and indeed by misdiagnosis.
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