The bleak love triangle revolved around the Midnight Bell pub. Later he portrayed her in The Midnight Bell (1929), the first part of the semi-autobiographical trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky. It was followed by Craven House (1926),Ī story of the inmates of a boarding-house, which established his Worked as a stenographer, having learned the typing and shorthand viaĪs a novelist Hamilton made his debut with the Dickensian Monday Morning (1925). The age of seventeen he began to work as an actor and assistant stage Hamilton continued his education at a commercial college in Holbron. London, and Westminster School (1918-19), from where he was taken away. He wasĮducated at Holland House School in Hove, Sussex, Colet Court in Postwar slump when the family began to run out of money. Hamilton grew up in a big house in Hove, which was sold during the Hamilton's olderīrother was the detective novelist Bruce Hamilton. (1926), a fictionalized life of Danton which he sent to Mussolini.Įllen published two romantic novels. Both Ellen and Bernard were publishedĪuthors – Bernhard had written historical books, including The Giant Wife had been a prostitute who threw herself under a train.Įllen, the daughter of a London dentist, was briefly married Tyrant, who spent his inheritance on drink and women. Bernard was a wealthy barrister, and a family (from The Slaves of Solitude, 1947 )īorn in Hassocks, Patrick Hamilton was the youngest of threeĬhildren born to parents, Bernard and Ellen Hamilton, who Hours, and then, in the evening, exhaled violently through the sameĬhannels. Termini into the mighty congested lungs, held there for a number of Through an infinitely complicated respitory apparatus of trains and Working men and women of all kinds, who every morning are sucked up "London, the crouching monster, likeĮvery other monster has to breathe, and breathe it does in its own Hamilton died of cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure. (Anthony Walter) Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)Įnglish novelist and playwright, whose best-known works include Rope (1929) and Gas Light (1938) both haveīeen filmed many times for the cinema and for television. All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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