Salt and His Circle
- Publisher: Hutchinson & Co., London
- Published: 1951
- Length: 224 pages
- Format: Hardback
Summary
According to Bernard Shaw, Winsten as a biographer “is inaccurate as to facts, wrong in his judgements, self-complacent and without humour…”. Never is this more evident in Winsten’s biography of Salt. Despite having borrowed Salt’s papers from Mrs Catherine Catherine Salt, which he never returned, he did not date the letters or events and at times he invents large passages of dialogue.
As a biographer of Henry Salt, it’s quite remarkable that Winsten manages to get Salt’s full name wrong in the first sentence of chapter one.
Content
- Preface
- Notes by the Author
- Introduction
- Another Henry
- Henry Goes to Eton
- Kate Joynes
- Back to Eton
- Cottage at Tilford
- Declassed
- A Compendium of the Cranks
- Among the Mountains
- Life in a Bath Chair
- More “Isms”
- Feud with Doctors
- Shaw Reads Candida
- Salt Witnesses a Marriage
- A Tea Party
- To Millthorpe
- Two Masters
- Kate Dies
- A Journey to Ayot
- Life is Everywhere
- Gandhi and Salt
- “The Shaw”
- Iolanthe
- Rumblings
- The Address
- Appendix 1 – Salt on Shaw
- Appendix 2 – The Books of Henry Salt
- Index
Reviews
- Man who gave Gandhi his clue Liverpool Daily Post, September 25,1951
- Rebels and cranks: the last of the line? Birmingham Gazette, September 26, 1951
- A Gentle Crusader The Guardian, October 5, 1951
- A Biography of Henry Salt The Vegetarian News, 1951
- Salt and His Circle Times Literary Supplement, October 5, 1951
- Salt and His Circle The Vegetarian Messenger, 1951