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Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist. Life. One of five children, Slater was born in the small mining port of Millom, Cumberland facing Lancashire across the estuary of Duddon sands.
Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist.
Montagu Slater. (1902-1956), Poet. Sitter in 1 portrait. Left wing journalist and writer, Slater worked with Britten on the GPO film unit's documentary Coal Face (1935).
Montagu Slater (1902-1956) is best-known today as the librettist of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, scriptwriter - and a poet.
From Wikipedia: Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist. Life. One of five children, Slater was born in the small mining port of Millom, Cumberland facing Lancashire across the estuary of Duddon sands.
Dec 26, 2010 · The story of a misunderstood outsider, desperately trying to achieve an ambition of married happiness by catching enough fish to support a family, tragedy comes after two accidents involving the young boys he takes to assist him. These lead to him being hounded by the village and a final, tragic act.
In his book The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta (1955), author Montagu Slater claims to offer a “fair” and “true” account of the Kenyan nationalist leader’s trial in a British colonial court. However, by including a mere fraction of the 2000+-page trial transcript, Slater amplifies certain aspects of the
