Nerina Shute

Nerina Shute (17 July 1908 – 20 October 2004) was an English journalist, novelist, memoirist, film critic, and gossip columnist for ‘’Film Weekly’’. Quotes Every day, sometimes once, or twice, or even three times, she found herself drinking gin, or whisky, in the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 'Cheshire Cheese', the famous 'pub' where flashy young reporters with padded shoulders, seedy old men of past fame, forgotten geniuses, tough young women whose finger-nails were no cleaner than Shute's, and the usual sprinkling of stars and pretenders, met daily, or nightly, for a quick drink, a dirty story, and perhaps a chance contact with someone useful. We Mixed Our Drinks: The Story of a Generation London The Jarrold Group Jarrolds 1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=4Vx2AAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=seedy+old+men 37 (152 pages) Why did I write this book?I have already written a book of memoirs published as long as 1973. It was called ‘’The Escapist Generations’’. If some of my readers remember this other book they will find repetitions. The basic story is the same — childhood scenes in California, memories of London in World War II wartime London — but this time I have written a book of confessions, something I have never done before.I am a private person. For many years I have managed to keep my secrets to myself, protecting the men and women I have loved. Now all my loved ones are dead and no longer vulnerable. No one is left who might be hurt or damaged by these confessions unless it is myself. The time has come to tell a story which requires to be told. Passionate Friendships: Memoirs and Confessions of a Rebel London Robert Hale (publishers) Robert Hale 1992 9 9780709049623 (252 pages; 1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; last part of quote) Quotes about Nerina Shute Nerina Shute, who began writing about films in the 1930s along with fellow reviewers Graham Greene and John Betjeman, and who, some 60 years later, rounded off her literary career with a frank memoir about her bisexuality, has died aged 96.Shute, who was the last survivor of a celebrated coterie of film critics of the 1930s, was celebrated also for her openness about her sexuality: she was predominantly lesbian, but married twice.In 1930, when she was 22, she shocked many by a novel which contained what she archly called an "ambisex-trous" woman character, while at 84 she wrote a memoir, Passionate Friendships, in which she was candid about her many love affairs. Bevis Hillier, Obituary. Nerina Shute. Free-loving writer and journalist The Guardian 2 November 2004 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/02/guardianobituaries.film External links Obituary. Nerina Shute The Telegraph 28 October 2004 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1475206/Nerina-Shute.html (This obituary incorrectly reports Nerina Shute's date of death as October 12rh instead of the correct date October 20th.) Bohemian with a Barbarous Touch The Sydney Morning Herald November 27, 2004 https://www.smh.com.au/national/bohemian-with-a-barbarous-touch-20041127-gdk787.html Category:1908 births Category:2004 deaths Category:Columnists from England Category:Critics from England Category:Memoirists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1900s Category:Women journalists from England