Edward Sackville-West’s Marcus Fleming: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Anti-Hero?
Issue number
(2024): 21
In 1924, Eddy Sackville-West wrote:
‘It worries me to think how much I shall regret having published The Ruin. It is so certain to be misunderstood . . . If only I could get through a day or so without thinking of Jack. I don’t think he yet realises what I have gone through. The Ruin does not appear to have enlightened him, as I hoped it would. He never writes to me now.’
What do we know of this ‘Jack’, who was so happily and unhappily dominating Eddy’s thoughts in 1924?
Photograph of Winchester ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Officers, 1922—showing J. W. McDougall (centre)
Winchester ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Winchester, G5/8/5