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Eric Charles Dickinson; Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien; Mark Gertler

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
3 5/8 in. x 2 3/8 in. (93 mm x 60 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax140453

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  • Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell. Artist or producer associated with 1716 portraits, Sitter associated with 600 portraits.

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Carlo Coppola, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Hindi-Urdu, Oakland University

15 October 2019, 09:02

Eric Charles Dickinson (1905-51) was a Cambridge University graduate and poet who lived most of his life in India, teaching English at various universities. In 1926 he was teaching at Aligarh Muslim University where he was an instructor of Ahmed Ali (1910-94), later the novelist who wrote Twilight in Delhi (1940); and that same year Dickinson served as a tutor and instructor to Raja Rao (1908-2006), later the novelist-philosopher who wrote The Serpent and the Rope (1960), on European manners and deportment before he went to study at the University of Montpellier. The three men remained life-long friends. Dickinson published The Ilex Grove (1919), Sonnets (1920), Laolus and Other Poems (1924), A Florentine Night (1931); An Erick Dickinson Anthology was posthumously published in 1952. A gifted amateur painter and art historian, he also published Kishangarh Painting, ed. K. J. Khandalavala (1959), a collection of essays originally appearing in the distinguished art quarterly Marg (Path) founded in 1946 by novelist and short-story writer Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004).