Loving Monsters (2014)
“Since most of his next eighteen years were spent in or around the London postal district of SE9 he qualifies as a genuine child of the suburbs. What is more, far from presenting the remainder of his life as a flight from the restricting horrors of petit-bourgeois gentility, he often spoke of the place, as well as of the inter-war period, with a degree of nostalgia. A biographer labels this Exhibit A.
He was, he said, the only child of Harold Jerningham Jebb and Olive Sargent, about whose an...cestry he was not very forthcoming. I don’t think he was particularly interested. Piecing it together, it appeared Harold’s own father was originally from Shropshire (there are some Jerningham graves in Ludlow) and had been brought when still a child to Herne Hill where his family had bought a poultry farm beside the Effra. Jayjay spoke of geese, a lucrative trade especially in the Christmas season. Harold was born there on the precise day in May 1885 that John Ruskin, a few hundred yards further up the hill, finished the dedicatory preface to Praeterita.MoreLess
He was, he said, the only child of Harold Jerningham Jebb and Olive Sargent, about whose an...cestry he was not very forthcoming. I don’t think he was particularly interested. Piecing it together, it appeared Harold’s own father was originally from Shropshire (there are some Jerningham graves in Ludlow) and had been brought when still a child to Herne Hill where his family had bought a poultry farm beside the Effra. Jayjay spoke of geese, a lucrative trade especially in the Christmas season. Harold was born there on the precise day in May 1885 that John Ruskin, a few hundred yards further up the hill, finished the dedicatory preface to Praeterita.MoreLess
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