“THE MAN I KNEW”
WIDOW BIOGRAPHIES (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Bth August. It is the fashion nowadays for widows of well-known men to write their late husbands’ lives. This has been particularly the case with the widows of famous literary men. Botli Joseph Conrad and Arnold Bennett afford recent instances. There are several reasons, however, why the book Lady Haig, widow of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, is about to have published under tlie title “The. Man I Knew,” will he in quite a different category from the two other widow biographies mentioned. Lady Haig’s Life of Earl Haig will be less critical, and more appreciative. Per. haps the soldier husband is easier to live with than the genius of letters. Artistic psychology is proverbially “difficult” at times, whereas a great soldier probably shows his most attractive side to the critics oil the hearth. Lady Haig has. besides her own observation, her husband’s diaries and especially his letters —he never failed to write home daily during the War—as solid material for her biographical study.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1935, Page 5
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