Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

from Widsith

Hard to believe it's been ten years since Britain banned traditional fox hunting. I was working for the BBC when the ban came in, and I remember going up to spend a day with one hunt in the midlands, filming them as they defiantly flouted the act, and then following them down to London for yet an...

from TheWasp

George Sherston goes to live with his unmarried aunt after the death of his parents. The quiet country setting ensures George leads an isolated childhood. which is only alleviated by the friendship and support he receives from his aunt's groom, Dixon. It is Dixon who introduces George the foxhunt...

from ksmyth

Poet Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical novel of an Edwardian young man and his pursuit of a sporting life. Written in 1928, it is Sassoon's literary attempt to distance himself a bit from his war poems. A fun read in which I learned a certain amount about fox hunting, and life in an upper...

from TimBazzett

MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN is the first volume of a trilogy, THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON, Siegfried Sassoon's thinly-veiled fictional autobiography. It chronicles the early life of Sassoon's fictional alter ego. Sherston parents died "before I was capable of remembering them," and h...

from nmele

This fictionalized memoir was interesting, but assumed a vocabulary and contextual knowledge of pre-World War 1 England that few today have. I was able to deduce or ignore some of the fox-hunting terms, but references to now forgotten British popular authors escaped me. The real interest for me b...