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J.F. Hendry

Born

in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland

September 12, 1912

Died

December 17, 1986

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Biography

Influences

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J.F. Hendry was a Scottish writer. He is best known for his novel about growing up in the West of Scotland, Fernie Brae (1947), and as the pioneering editor, along with Henry Treece, of the three anthologies, The New Apocalypse, White Horsemen and Crown and Sickle, and as the author of two volumes of verse, The Bombed Happiness and Orchestral Mountain, and of the epic poem Marimarusa.

He was educated at Whitehill School in Dennistoun and was a student of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow although he did not graduate. He served in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War and when the war was over he left Scotland to travel through Europe, Africa and North America as a translator with the United Nations. He was for many y ...more

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	The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories by J.F. Hendry (Editor), George Mackay Brown (Contributor), Elspeth Davie (Contributor) 3.14 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (A Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice (Canongate Classic) by Edwin Muir, J.F. Hendry, Gordon M. Williams 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920 - 1945 by Maurice Lindsay (Editor), Marion Angus (Contributor), J.F. Hendry (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1946 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scottish Short Stories by Theodora Hendry (Editor), J.F. Hendry (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bombed Happiness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Alien 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Orchestral Mountain: A Symphonic Elegy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1943	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We must recover a sense of nationhood,' said Maclean, 'Like Ireland.'
'I think we must first recover a sense of identity,' said David. 'Until we know who we are, there's little use in finding out what we are.”
― J.F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood

tags: identity, nationhood, recovery, scotland

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“Like the great bell in the tower, its clapper silenced, the University hung suspended over the city, a shell.”
― J.F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood

tags: glasgow, university-of-glasgow

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