Winston Graham
On 7 May 1947, a man born Winston Grime signed a deed poll and emerged as Winston Graham — the name under which he would work for the remainder of a long writing life.
Graham was born in Manchester on 30 June 1908, a citizen of the United Kingdom who wrote in English. His career spanned the occupations of novelist, writer, and screenwriter, and his fiction moved across the genres of historical prose literature and mystery fiction. Among his notable works were Marnie, The Little Walls, and The Walking Stick, along with the Poldark Novels, his sequence of historical fiction.
Recognition came in several forms over the course of his career. Graham received the Gold Dagger award and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a distinction that placed him formally within the ranks of the United Kingdom's recognised literary figures.
Graham died on 10 July 2003, in Buxted, ten days after his ninety-fifth birthday. His fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature stood as one of the honours the literary establishment had conferred on him during his working life.
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His hands touched the cool skin of her back, Abruptly they slipped inside her frock and closed about her waist. She leaned her head back against his shoulder and he kissed her until the room went dark before her eyes.
No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don’t desire... But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don’t get.
At that, his smile faded and he kissed her. “Ross,” she said. “Dear Ross.” “I love you,” he said, “and am your servant. Demelza, look at me. If I’ve done wrong in the past, give me leave to make amends.” So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.
They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.
Demelza said: ‘It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.’ Ross.
Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.