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Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, and Donald Mitchell, eds, Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, vol. 4: 1952–1957 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-84383-382-6 (hb)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

STEPHEN ARTHUR ALLEN
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 271 - 276
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References

1 Carpenter, Humphrey, Benjamin Britten: a Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1992)Google Scholar . Carpenter's significance has since been recognized by Alan Bennett, who included him as a central character in his play about Britten, and Auden, , The Habit of Art (London: Faber & Faber, 2009)Google Scholar .

2 London: Boosey and Hawkes, 1948; 2nd edn, 1954.

3 Letters from a Life, vol. 1: 1929–1939, ed. Mitchell, Donald and Reed, Philip (London: Faber & Faber, 1991)Google Scholar .

4 Letters from a Life, vol. 2: 1939–1945, ed. Mitchell, Donald and Reed, Philip (London: Faber & Faber, 1991)Google Scholar .

5 Letters from a Life, vol. 3: 1946–1951, ed. Mitchell, Donald, Reed, Philip, and Cooke, Mervyn (London: Faber & Faber, 2004)Google Scholar .

6 Volume 5, covering the years 1958–65, is scheduled to appear in late 2010.

7 Imogen Holst: a Life in Music, ed. Grogan, Christopher (Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2007)Google Scholar .

8 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998); a rare error in the bibliography of Letters from a Life has the book dated 1993.

9 Ludwig, , Prince of Hesse and the Rhine, Ausflug Ost 1956 (Darmstadt: Eduard Roether, 1956)Google Scholar ; Margaret, Princess of Hesse and the Rhine (with Edward Mace), Dear Friends 1956–1986, privately reproduced typescript of a selection of letters, c1988. Copies of both volumes are held at the Britten–Pears Foundation Library.

10 The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears 1936–1978, ed. Reed, Philip (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995)Google Scholar .

11 Bridcut, John, Britten's Children (London: Faber & Faber, 2006)Google Scholar ; the 2004 film documentary is not currently available commercially.

12 Bridcut, Britten's Children, 117.

13 Bridcut, Britten's Children, 234.

14 See Valentine Cunningham, ‘Filthy Britten’, The Guardian (5 January 2002), and Stray, Christopher, ‘Sexy Ghosts and Gay Grammarians: Kennedy's Latin Primer in Britten's The Turn of the Screw’, Paradigm 2/6 (2003), 9–13Google Scholar .

15 Letters from a Life, vol. 2, pp. 1015–16.