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Name	Ian Allinson
Email	1and1@ianallinson.co.uk
Address	11 Germain Close
Zip Code	M9 0SQ
City	Manchester
State	MAN
Country	GB
Phone	+44.1617953546
NameServer	ns16.myqiq.info
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!DOCTYPE html>html langen>head>title>Edward Upward/title>meta charsetutf-8>meta nameauthor contentD. Allinson>meta namedescription contentEdward Upward, novelist and short story writer – official website home page>meta namekeywords contentEdward, Upward, Spiral, Ascent, Thirties, Rotten, Elements, Home, Struggle, ebook, download, Isherwood, Auden, Marxist, Communist, socialist, Chalmers, Mortmere, Railway, Accident, Journey, Border, novel, literature, story, stories, writer, author, novelist>meta namerobots contentINDEX, FOLLOW>meta nameviewport contentwidthdevice-width, initial-scale1>link relstylesheet typetext/css hrefcss/edwardupward.css mediaall>link relicon typeimage/png hrefimg/favicon.png>/head>body>div classheader rolebanner>h1>Edward Upward/h1>/div> !--header-->div classnav rolenavigation>ul>li>a hrefindex.html classcurrent titleHome page>Home/a>/li>li>a hrefspiral.html titleThe Spiral Ascent trilogy – download and information>The Spiral Ascent/a>/li>li>a hrefother-writing.html titleOther writing by Edward Upward>Other Writing/a>/li>li>a hrefaudio.html titleThe author reading his stories>Audio/a>/li>li>a hrefpublications.html titleList of publications by Edward Upward>Publications/a>/li>li>a hrefchronology.html titleEvents in the life of the author>Chronology/a>/li>li>a hrefcriticism.html titleWriting about Edward Upward’s work>Criticism/a>/li>li>a hrefnews.html titleNews relating to Edward Upward>News/a>/li>li>a hrefabout.html titleAbout this site, contact, privacy>About/a>/li>/ul>/div> !--nav-->div classarticle rolemain>div classinner>h2>Introducing Edward Upward/h2>p>Edward Upward was a writer of novels and short stories from the 1920s until into the present century. His literaryassociates included Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Upward’s early and late stories ofteninvolve a fantastical element, whilst his trilogy of novels cite>The Spiral Ascent/cite> recalls the events and atmosphereof his overlapping literary, political and educational worlds. The question of how art should relate to real life and,more specifically, how a socialist can combine artistic creativity with political commitment, is central to his maturework./p>h2>A Brief Biography/h2>h3>Early Years/h3>p>Upward was born in 1903 in Romford, England, where his father had a doctor’s surgery. He was sent away to privateschools, first to a ‘prep’ school and then to Repton ‘public’ school, where he formed a life-long friendship withChristopher Isherwood. He went on to Cambridge to study history and English and was followed there a year later byIsherwood./p>p>Whilst at Cambridge, Upward and Isherwood collaborated in writing a series of surreal and anti-establishment storiesabout the inhabitants of the imaginary village of Mortmere. These were written for private experimentation rather thanpublication and although in 1928 Upward contributed the most substantial story, ‘The Railway Accident’, for many yearshe only allowed its publication in the US under the pseudonym of Allen Chalmers./p>img srcimg/EU_by_CI.pngaltEdward Upward in 1928, photo taken by Christopher Isherwood titleEdward Upward in 1928, photo taken by Christopher Isherwood />p>Upward had originally hoped to become a poet but at Cambridge he decided his verse wasn’t good enough and began along search for a way of writing that would satisfy him. After leaving university he took up a number of teaching postsas a tutor or at schools but he found this work hard to combine with his attempts at writing./p>h3>The Thirties/h3>p>Upward had always been rebellious, refusing the Christian confirmation and opposing the public school institutionsof ‘fagging’ and the Officers’ Training Corps. He had seen older pupils leave to die in the First World War and by the1930s war was threatening again in a Europe ravaged by economic crisis. He also witnessed at first-hand the rise ofFascism when he visited Isherwood in Berlin. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party, a decision which changed his lifeand his writing. In the same year he began teaching at Alleyn’s school in Dulwich, where he was to continue workinguntil retirement./p>p>During the thirties several of Upward’s stories were published and he also wrote pieces for theTeachers’ Anti-War Movement magazine, cite>The Ploughshare/cite>. In 1938 the Hogarth Press brought out his first novelcite>Journey to the Border/cite> which showed the influences both of the fantasy and poetic language of Mortmere and of hisnew political commitment. In the novel a tutor tries to escape from the reality of his servile situation by inducing ahallucinatory consciousness in himself. This provides no relief however, as frightening characters associated withvarious evils in the real world begin to appear in his fantasy. Finally the tutor recognizes that he must confrontreality rather than change his perceptions, and decides to join the workers’ movement./p>img srcimg/JTTB_jacket.pngaltDust jacket of Journey to the Border, designed by Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf) titleDust jacket of Journey to the Border, designed by Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf) />p>In 1936 Upward had married Hilda Percival, also a teacher and member of the Communist Party, and they had a son anddaughter in the following years. During the Second World War Upward was evacuated with his school to Maidstone in Kentand then to Fleetwood in Lancashire. Upward struggled to write anything that he was happy with for many years after hisfirst novel, largely because of the difficulties he found in combining his imaginative and political ideas./p>h3>After the War/h3>p>By 1948 Upward and his wife felt forced to leave the Communist Party because they believed that the party’s post-warpolicy in Britain was no longer revolutionary. Upward continued to teach until his retirement to the Isle of Wight,where he was able to devote himself to completing his major work, the semi-autobiographical trilogy cite>The SpiralAscent/cite>. He and Hilda continued their political activity, in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and an independentsocialist group, and supported other causes such as civil liberties and the campaigns against the American war inVietnam and apartheid. He corresponded with old associates as well as younger left-wing writers such as Adrian Mitchelland Harold Pinter. Isherwood and Upward continued to exchange views on their new writing (Isherwood regarded Upward as‘the judge before whom all my work must stand trial’) and they remained friends until Isherwood’s death./p>img srcimg/EU_by_KL.png altEdward Upward in 1993, photo taken by Keith Langridge titleEdward Upward in 1993, photo taken by Keith Langridge />p>Having seen the final volume of cite>The Spiral Ascent/cite> published at last in 1977, Upward embarked on writing shortstories once again, some of them revisiting themes of art and politics and often involving dream or fantasy, and others tellingpoignant tales of old age. After Heinemann’s publication of cite>The Night Walk and Other Stories/cite>, StephenStuart-Smith at Enitharmon Press brought out several further collections of new stories as well publishingcite>The Mortmere Stories/cite> and a revised cite>Journey to the Border/cite>. In his later short stories Upward felt he had achieved a new synthesis between the imaginative and political sides of his writing. He retained his hatred of war and oppressionas well as a rich knowledge of literature until his death in 2009./p>div classfooter> /div> !--footer-->/div> !--inner-->/div> !--article-->/body>/html>

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