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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gerald_Bullett > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gerald_Bullett.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bullett > Source revision: 1352293221 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British writer (1893–1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Gerald Bullett | honorific_suffix = | image = File:GeraldWilliamBullett.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = Sebastian Fox | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|12|30|df=y}} | birth_place = [London](/source/London), England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|01|03|1893|12|30|df=y}} | death_place = [Chichester](/source/Chichester), England | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | residence = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_Cambridge) | home_town = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notable_works = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Gerald William Bullett''' (30 December 1893 – 3 January 1958)Michael Ashley, ''Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction'' (Taplinger Pub. Co., 1978: {{ISBN|0-8008-8275-X}}), p. 45. was a British [man of letters](/source/man_of_letters). He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic, poet and publisher. He wrote both [supernatural fiction](/source/supernatural_fiction) and some [children's literature](/source/children's_literature). A few of his books were published under the pseudonym '''Sebastian Fox'''. ==Biography== Bullett was born in London, the son of businessman Robert Bullet and Ellen Bullett (née Pegg), and educated at [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_Cambridge). During the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) he worked for the [BBC](/source/BBC) in London, and after the war was a radio broadcaster. Bullett also contributed to the ''[Times Literary Supplement](/source/Times_Literary_Supplement)''. Politically, Bullett described himself as a "liberal socialist" and claimed to detest "prudery, [prohibition](/source/prohibition), [blood sports](/source/blood_sports), central heating, and literary tea parties".''Twentieth century authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature'', edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft; (Third Edition). New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950, (pp. 217-8) Bullett was also an [anti-fascist](/source/anti-fascist), describing fascism as "gangsterism on a national scale"; he publicly backed the [Republican](/source/Republican_faction_(Spanish_Civil_War)) side during the [Spanish Civil War](/source/Spanish_Civil_War).Valentine Cunningham, ''Spanish front: writers on the civil war'', Oxford University Press, 1986 {{ISBN|0192122584}} (p.58). One of his novels was ''Mr. Godly Beside Himself'' (1924), a humorous [fantasy](/source/fantasy) story about a modern man who exchanges places with his [doppelgänger](/source/doppelg%C3%A4nger) in [fairyland](/source/fairyland). [Brian Stableford](/source/Brian_Stableford) likens Bullet's novel to other works of post First World War British fantasy, such as [Stella Benson](/source/Stella_Benson)'s ''Living Alone'' (1919), and [Hope Mirrlees](/source/Hope_Mirrlees)' ''[Lud-in-the-Mist](/source/Lud-in-the-Mist)'' (1926).Brian Stableford, "Bullett, Gerald (William)", in the ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', ed. [David Pringle](/source/David_Pringle), St. James Press, 1996, {{ISBN|1-55862-205-5}},(p. 84-5). Bullett was a great admirer of [Walt Whitman](/source/Walt_Whitman), and wrote an essay on Whitman for the book ''Great Democrats'' by Alfred Barratt Brown. Here he described Whitman as "a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes".Anthony Arblaster, [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/honouring-the-democrats/ Honouring The Democrats], [Red Pepper](/source/Red_Pepper_(magazine)), March 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014. In 1926 Bullett established the publishing firm Gerald Howe Ltd. in partnership with Garfield Howe."The Bookman", [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35636379 "Books and Authors". ''The Courier-Mail'', 6 October 1934, p. 18. Retrieved 19 August 2024. The firm "issued a modest list of titles with a literary bent".[https://seriesofseries.com/soho-library/ Soho Library], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 18 August 2-24. Bullett died in Chichester, West Sussex, on 3 January 1958.{{Cite ODNB|last=Ehrlich|first=Felicity|date=4 October 2008|title=Bullett, Gerald William (1893–1958), writer and broadcaster|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40888|access-date=5 July 2020|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40888}} ==Works== * ''The Progress of Kay, A Series of Glimpses'' (1916) * ''Mice and other poems'' (1921) * ''The Street of the Eye and Nine Other Tales'' (1923) * ''Mr Godly Beside Himself'' (1924) * ''Walt Whitman: A Study and a Selection'' (1924) * ''The Baker's Cart and Other Tales'' (1925) * ''Modern English Fiction'' (1926) * ''Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible'' (1927) * ''The Spanish Caravel'' (1927); later ''The Happy Mariners'' (1956) * "Dreaming" (1928) – essay * ''The World in Bud and Other Tales'' (1928) * ''Nicky Son of Egg'' (1929) * ''The History of Egg Pandervil'' (1929) * ''Germany'' (1930) * ''Remember Mrs Munch'' (1931) * ''Marden Fee'' (1931) * ''Helen's Lovers and Other Tales'' (1932) * ''I'll Tell You Everything'' (1932), by Bullett and [J. B. Priestley](/source/J._B._Priestley) * ''The Quick and The Dead'' (1933) * ''Eden River'' (1934) * ''The Bubble'' (1934) * ''The Jury'' (1935) – filmed as ''[The Last Man to Hang?](/source/The_Last_Man_to_Hang%3F)'' in 1956 * ''The Snare of the Fowler: A Tragedy of Time & Chance'' (1936), as by Sebastian Fox * ''Poems in Pencil'' (1937) * ''The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton'' (1937) * ''The Bending Sickle'' (1938) – novel * ''Twenty Four Tales'' (1938) * ''When the Cat's Away'' (1940) * ''A Man of Forty'' (1940) * ''Winter Solstice'' (1943) * ''The Elderbrook Brothers'' (1945) * ''Judgment in Suspense'' (1946) – novel * ''George Eliot'' (1947) * ''Men at High Table'' and ''The House of Strangers'' (1948) * ''Poems'' (1949) * ''Cricket in Heaven'' (1949) * ''The English Mystics'' (1950) * ''[Sydney Smith](/source/Sydney_Smith), a Biography and a Selection'' (1951) * ''The Trouble at Number Seven'' (1952) * ''News From The Village'' (1952) – poems * ''The Alderman's Son'' (1954) – novel * ''Windows On A Vanished Time'' (1955) * ''One Man's Poison'' (1956), as by Sebastian Fox * ''The Daughters of Mrs Peacock'' (1957) * ''Odd Woman Out'' (1958), as by Sebastian Fox * ''The Peacock Brides'' (1958) * ''Ten-Minute Tales and Some Others'' (1959) * ''Collected Poems'' (1959), selected by [E. M. W. Tillyard](/source/E._M._W._Tillyard) === As editor === * ''The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems'' (1923) * ''Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday'' (1929) * ''The Testament of Light'' (1932) – anthology * ''The Pattern of Courtesy: An Anthology, Continuing the Testament of Light'' (1934) * ''A Book of Good Faith – Montaigne: A Miscellany of Passages'' (1938) * ''The Phœnix and Turtle'' (1938) * ''The Jackdaw's Nest, A Fivefold Anthology'' (1939) * ''Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew Arnold'' (1945) * ''Silver Poets of the 16th Century'' (1947) === As translator === * ''The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse'' (1946) == References == {{reflist |25em}} == External links== {{Wikiquote}} * {{Gutenberg author|id=36597|name=Gerald Bullett}} * {{FadedPage|id=Bullett, Gerald|name=Gerald Bullett|author=yes}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Gerald William Bullett}} * {{Librivox author|id=12249}} * {{ISFDB name|19971}} * {{LCAuth|n79021902|Gerald Bullett|78|ue}} * [https://lccn.loc.gov/no97057236 Sebastian Fox] at LC Authorities, with no records, and [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97057236/ at WorldCat] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullett, Gerald}} Category:1893 births Category:1958 deaths Category:20th-century English male writers Category:20th-century English novelists Category:20th-century English poets Category:20th-century British essayists Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Category:British male essayists Category:British male poets Category:English anti-fascists Category:English essayists Category:English fantasy writers Category:English male non-fiction writers Category:English male novelists Category:English male short story writers Category:English socialists Category:Writers from London Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers Category:20th-century English short story writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gerald Bullett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bullett) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bullett?action=history)). 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