Word: cashel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original texts of The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession and An Unsocial Socialist, all long out of print, are now available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough to be intolerable." But the three taken together are Victorian documents, and give a good idea of the audacious, irreverent young Shavian mind...
...Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) is best known as the novel which glorified Gene Tunney ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
...scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14, she took on 30 pupils of her own. At 16 she became a piano professor, under Pianist Myra Hess at Tobias Matthay's famed London music school. Later she married an Anglican parson, the Reverend H. Cashel Thomas, now vicar of St. Philip's in London...