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John Freeman
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Tales of Two Cities
Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of st...
A Very Private Celebrity
John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century: a renaissance man who constantly reinvented himself; a household name who sought complete anonymity. From advertising executive to war hero to MP tipped to be Prime Minister, Freeman then changed direction to become a seminal television interviewer and editor of the New Statesman. He subsequently remodelled himself yet again to become, in turn, an ambassador, a TV mogul, a university professor and, finally, in retirement, a well-known bowls player in south London. Freeman packed nine lives into his ninety-nine years, but all he really wanted was to be forgotten. The paradox of this private celebrity ...
John Freeman - Poems
John Frederick Freeman was born in London on 29th January 1880. He began his working life as an office boy at 13. Although known as a poet he did, in fact, build an early, successful, career in insurance. He formed a close friendship with the poet Walter de la Mare from 1907, who, impressed by Freeman's poems spent some time lobbying on his behalf with Edward Marsh and Harold Munro to get Freeman accepted into their Georgian Poetry series. It took time but eventually his work was accepted. Freeman has been described as "tall, gangling, ugly, solemn, punctilious". He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1920 with 'Poems' 1909-1920. 'His Last Hours' was set to music by fellow poet Ivor Gurney. John Frederick Freeman did on 23rd September 1929
Papers of John Freeman
MS 243 comprises seven letters written to George Henry Haydon. One is written from Broadmoor Asylum, 25 November, 1867. Others are written under the name of John Freeman from Melbourne and tell of Freeman's adjustment to life, and life in Melbourne in 1889. Another letter deals with the "land boom". Also included are two newspaper cuttings and a poem written in 1862 and signed by Edward Oxford. Lights and shadows of Melbourne life by John Freeman (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888), inscribed to G.H. Haydon.
Poems New and Old
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