Life
1879-1938 [E. Temple Thurston; var. 1933]; m. Katherine Cecil Thurston,
1901; separated, 1907; divorced 1910; a second marriage, ending in divorce
also, was followed by a third; author of several anti-Catholic novels,
The Apple of Eden (1905), the story of a priest who falls in love;
Traffic (1906), on the inhumanity of the Church in not allowing
divorce and remarriage; The Passionate Crime (1915), in which an
eccentric, religious poet commits a murder; Enchantment (1917),
about a drunken squire who commits his daughter to a convent; The Miracle
(1922), on the plight of a girl made pregnant by a priest; and Jane
Carroll (1927), in which an Irish republican is killed because of
his love for a married English woman; such as Traffic: The Story of
A Faithful Woman (1906), in which a woman sinks into prostitution
rather than remarry at the behest of her religion; lived in London. IF
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Notes
The Times, obit. noted of his novels that it ‘required to save them from emotionalism an austerity that Thurston found it hard consistently to impose on himself.’
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
cites non-Irish fiction titles, The City of Beautiful Nonsense; Sally
Bishop; The Evolution of Katherine, The Realist and other
Tales; Mirage; David and Jonathan (1918) and others, and lists Apple of Eden (Chapman & Hall 1905), pp.323 [argument against
celibacy of clergy, a freshly ordained Maynooth priest meeting a woman
he had loved in the confessional; bad reports of Irish life in Waterford]; Traffic: The Story of A Faithful Woman (Lodnon: Duckworth 1906;
NY: Dillingham), 452pp. [Waterford and London, thesis novel regarding
refusal of right to divorce leading to immoral practices; girl leaves
unworthy Irish husband, must refuse offer from Protestant in London, and
goes on streets]; The Garden of Resurrection ([Chapman & Hall [1911]), 307pp. [Bellairs in restaurant hears cad speak of marrying
rich West Indian girl without love; warns her; she marries; comes to unhappiness;
returns to him in West of Ireland, they marry]; Thirteen (Chapman & Hall 1912), 276pp. [thirteen short stories, three with bits of Irish
life]; The Passionate Crime, a Tale of Faerie (Chapman & Hall
1915), 311pp. [Anthony Sorrel, poet, meets Catholic lady in Tipperary,
who is later murdered; he is hanged; author theorises causes; finds people
queer, and peasants fetishistic; misunderstands Catholic doctrine, acc.
Brown]; Enchantment (Fisher Unwin 1917), 316pp. Charles Desmond,
Waterford squire and tippler, vows daughter to convent and reneges but
daughter has vocation; meets his death on the way to greet her apparent
rescue; the ‘Prince of a Waterford family destroys her vocation;
disreputable; style throws glamour over all]. All sounds peculiar, obsessive
and interesting.
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), adds detail: d. 1938, and titles The Miracle (1938) [west of Ireland; a girl conceives a child by the priest, and finds Joe Fennell, to whom betrothed, to marry her, while her peasant father, distracted by superstition, throws himself off a rock]; May Eve (1924) [south of Ireland; the dg. of an entomologist is saved from the convent by Irish piping and young love]; Jane Carroll (1927) [Madden, an Irish revolution, falls in love with an English social butterfly, they consummated the relationship, and he is shot by his companions presumably for his moral lapse].
British Library holds [1] The Wandering Jew ... From the play by Ernest Temple Thurston. pp. 396. Putnam: London, 1934. 8o. [2] A Hank of Hair. pp. 314. Cassell & Co.: London, 1932. 8o. [3] A Roof and Four Walls. A comedy in four acts. pp. 142. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1923. 8o. [4] Charmeuse. pp. 314. Cassell & Co.: London, 1924. 8o. [5] Charmeuse. A comedy in three acts. pp. 95. London, New York, [1932.] 8o. [6] Come and Listen ... With illustrations by Flora C. Twort. pp. vii. 136. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1927. 8o. [7] “David & Jonathan.” [A novel.]. pp. 256. Hutchinson & Co.: London, [1918.] 8o. [8] Digressions: being passages from the works of E. Temple Thurston. Collected & arranged by Bellwattle. pp. vi. 275. Chapman & Hall: London, 1912. 8o. [9] Discord. pp. 160. Ernest Benn: London, 1933. 8o. [10] Driven. A play in four acts. pp. 144. Chapman & Hall: London, 1914. 8o. [11] Title E. Temple Thurston. A critical study, with a bibliography. [With portraits.]. pp. 27. [G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1926.] 8o. [12] Enchantment. pp. 276. Lloyds: London, [1918.] 8o. [13] Enchantment. pp. 316. T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1917. 8o. [14] Enchantment. (New edition.). pp. 316. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1926. 8o. [15] Jane Carroll. pp. 380. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, [1927.] 8o. [16] John Boddy. Leaves from a constable's notebook. pp. 287. Ward, Lock & Co.: London & Melbourne, 1931. 8o. [17] Judas Iscariot. A play in four acts. Title [Another copy.] Judas Iscariot, etc. F.P. pp. 122. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1923. 8o. London & New York, 1923. 8o. [18] Man in a Black Hat. pp. 312. Cassell & Co.: London, 1930. 8o. [19] May Eve. Bath: Lythway Press, 1973. ISBN 0 85046 473 0 pp. 287. 19 cm. [20] May Eve, etc. pp. 287. Hutchinson & Co.: London, [1924.] 8o. [21] May Eve, etc. pp. 340. D. Appleton & Co.: New York, 1923. 8o. [22] Millennium. pp. 557. Cassell & Co.: London, 1929. 8o. [23] Mirage. pp. 126. George Newnes: London, 1920. 8o. [24] Mirage. pp. viii. 310. Methuen & Co.: London, 1908. 8o. [25] Mirage ... New and cheaper edition. pp. viii. 310. Chapman & Hall: London, 1912. 8o. [26] Mr. Bottleby Does Something. pp. 313. Cassell & Co.: London, 1925. 8o. [27] Over the Hill. pp. vii. 247. Chapman & Hall: London, 1917. 8o. [28] Poems 1918-1923. pp. 68. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1923. 8o. [29] Portrait of a Spy. pp. viii. 300. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1928. 8o. [30] Portrait of a Spy. The Story of Mata Hari. Title [A reissue.] Portrait of a Spy, etc. pp. 250. Readers Library Publishing Co.: London, [1932.] 8o. London, [1938.] 8o.[31] Richard Furlong ... New and cheaper edition. pp. 391. Chapman & Hall: London, 1915. 8o. [32] Richard Furlong. A novel ... Two illustrations by W. R. Dakin. pp. 391. Chapman & Hall: London, 1913. 8o. [33] Sally Bishop ... Illustrated, etc. pp. 331. Chapman & Hall: London, 1924. 8o. [34] Sally Bishop: a romance. pp. viii. 518. Chapman & Hall: London, 1908. 8o. [35] Sally Bishop, etc. pp. 380. Readers Library Publishing Co.: London, [1933.] 8o. [36] Sally Bishop, etc. pp. 317. G. Newnes: London, [1914.] 8o. [37] Sheepskins & Grey Russet ... Illustrated by Emile Verpilleux. pp. xii. 307. Cassell & Co.: London, 1919. 8o. [38] Snobs. A farcical comedy in one act. pp. 24. London & New York, [1925.] 8o. [39] Summer 1917, and other verses. pp. 68. Chapman & Hall: London, 1917. 8o. [40] Tares. pp. 128. London, [1920.] 8o. [41] Tares. pp. 329. Chapman & Hall: London, 1915. 8o. [42] The “Flower of Gloster.” [An account of a barge voyage from Oxford to Inglesham.] ... Illustrated by W. R. Dakin. pp. xi. 244. Williams & Norgate: London, 1911. 8o. [43] The Achievement. pp. 192. London, [1929.] 8o. [44] The Achievement. pp. 397. Chapman & Hall: London, 1914. 8o. [45] The Achievement of Richard Furlong. pp. vii. 728. Chapman & Hall: London, 1915. 8o. [46] The Antagonists. pp. 160. George Newnes: London, [1924.] 8o. [47] The Antagonists. pp. 300. Chapman & Hall: London, 1912. 8o. [48] The Apple of Eden. pp. 192. London, [1926.] 8o. [49] The Apple of Eden. pp. 128. London, [1921.] 8o. [50] The Apple of Eden. pp. 254. George Newnes: London, [1920.] 8o. [51] The Apple of Eden. pp. 254. G. Newnes: London, [1914.] 8o. [52] The Apple of Eden ... New and cheaper edition. pp. 127. Chapman & Hall: London, 1906. 8o. [53] The Apple of Eden. [A novel.]. pp. 323. Chapman & Hall: London, 1905. 8o. [54] The Blue Peter. A play in four acts. pp. 172. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1924. 8o. [55] The broken heart. Bath: Lythway Press, 1974. ISBN 0 85046 511 7 pp. 280. 19 cm. [56] The Broken Heart. [Tales.]. pp. 280. Ward, Lock & Co.: London & Melbourne, 1932. 8o. [57] The City of Beautiful Nonsense. pp. 280. Harmondsworth, 1939. 8o. [58] The City of Beautiful Nonsense. pp. 254. George Newnes: London, [1914.] 8o. [59] The City of Beautiful Nonsense. pp. viii. 360. Chapman & Hall: London, 1909. 8o. [60] The City of Beautiful Nonsense. Title [A re-issue.] The City of Beautiful Nonsense. pp. 122. [1916.]. London, [1920.] 8o. [61] The City of Beautiful Nonsense ... New ... edition. pp. viii. 360. Chapman & Hall: London, 1913. 8o. [62] The City of Beautiful Nonsense ... With over one hundred and twenty illustrations by Emile Verpilleux. New and illustrated edition. pp. xii. 458. Chapman & Hall: London, 1910. 8o. [63] The Cost: a comedy in four acts. pp. 134. Chapman & Hall: London, 1914. 8o. [64] The Evolution of Katherine. pp. 124. London, [1921.] 8o. [65] The Evolution of Katherine. pp. 254. George Newnes: London, [1914.] 8o. [66] The Evolution of Katherine. pp. 190. Stanley Paul & Co.: London, [1911.] 8o. [67] The Evolution of Katherine. pp. 352. Chapman & Hall: London, 1907. 8o. [68] The Eye of the Wift. pp. 255. Cassell & Co.: London, 1922. 8o. [69] The Five-Barred Gate. pp. 158. London, [1928.] 8o. [70] The Five-Barred Gate. pp. 250. George Newnes: London, [1919.] 8o. [71] The Five Barred Gate. pp. 319. Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1916. 8o. [72] The Five-Barred Gate. (Abridged.). pp. 128. London, [1921.] 8o. [73] The Forest Fire, and other stories. pp. 248. Cassell & Co.: London, [1919.] 8o. [74] The Garden of Resurrection. pp. 254. George Newnes: London, [1915.] 8o. [75] The Garden of Resurrection: being the love story of an ugly man. pp. 307. Chapman & Hall: London, 1911. 8o. [76] The Garden of Resurrection, etc. pp. 316. Cassell & Co.: London, 1931. 8o. [77] The Goose-Feather Bed. pp. 352. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1926. 8o. [78] The Greatest Wish in the World. pp. 124. [1917.] [79] The Greatest Wish in the World. pp. 254. George Newnes: London, [1914.] 8o. [80] The Greatest Wish in the World. pp. viii. 392. Chapman & Hall: London, 1910. 8o. [81] The Green Bough. pp. 307. Cassell & Co.: London, 1921. 8o. [82] The King's Candle. [Tales.]. pp. vii. 252. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1929. 8o. [83] The Miracle. pp. 288. Hutchinson & Co.: London, [1922.] 8o. [84] The Miracle ... Fourth edition. pp. 288. Hutchinson & Co.: London, [c. 1925.] 8o. [85] The Open Window ... Illustrated by Charles Robinson. pp. 286. Chapman & Hall: London, 1915. 8o. [86] The Open Window ... Illustrated by Charles Robinson. pp. 286. Chapman & Hall: London, 1913. 8o. [87] The Passionate Crime: a tale of faerie. pp. 311. Chapman & Hall: London, 1915. 8o. [88] The Passionate Crime, etc. pp. 125. London, [1921.] 8o. [89] The Patchwork Papers. pp. xi. 267. Chapman & Hall: London, 1910. 8o. [90] The Realist ... New ... edition. pp. 157. John Long: London, 1914. 8o. [91] The Realist, and other stories. pp. 148. Sisley's Ltd.: London, 1906. 8o. [92] The Rosicrucian [and other tales]. pp. 284. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1930. 8o. [93] The Rossetti, and other tales. pp. 313. Cassell & Co.: London, 1926. 8o. [94] The Wandering Jew. A play in four phases. pp. viii. 148. G. P. Putnam's Sons: London & New York, 1920. 8o. [95] The World of Wonderful Reality. pp. xiii. 297. Hodder & Stoughton: London, [1919.] 8o. [96] Thirteen. [Stories.]. pp. vii. 279. Chapman & Hall: London, 1912. 8o. [97] Traffic: the story of a faithful woman. pp. 250. George Newnes: London, [1917.] 8o. [98] Traffic. The story of a faithful woman. pp. xi. 452. Duckworth & Co.: London, 1906. 8o.
Joyce held in his Trieste library
a copy of The Realist (London: Sisley’s 1904; John Lane 1914). (See
Richard Ellmann, The Consciousness of James Joyce, Faber, p.130 [Appendix].)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)