Gilbert Armitage
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Gilbert Armitage was a British lawyer, critic and journalist who was associated with Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Armitage wrote for the Yorkshire Post in the 1930s where he was a contemporary of Hugh Ross Williamson, Brooke Crutchley, Iverach MacDonald, Charles Davy and Colin Brooks.[1] Among the journals that he contributed to were Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, Julian Symons' Twentieth Century Verse and the English Review. He was a member of the Whitefriars and Coningsby clubs.[2]
Armitage's Banned in England was inspired by the 1932 trial and conviction of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk for obscenity.[3]
Selected publications[edit]
- Banned in England: An Examination of the Law Relating to Obscene Publications. London: Wishart, 1932. (Here & Now Pamphlets. No. 7.)
- The History of the Bow Street Runners, 1729-1829. London: Wishart, 1932.
References[edit]
- ^ "Mr Hugh Ross Williamson". Geoffrey Grigson, The Times, 21 January 1978, p. 16.
- ^ Crowson, N.J. (Ed.); Colin Brooks. (1998). Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks, 1932-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-521-66239-0.
- ^ "After Jix (1930-1945)" by Elisabeth Ladenson in David Bradshaw & Rachel Potter. (Eds.) (2013). Prudes on the Prowl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-19-969756-4.
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