Alan Odle

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  • Vanity Fair

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    Alan Odle did drawings in a humorous vein for the monthly American magazine Vanity Fair from 1920-29 (see The Life & Work pages 61-63 for details). Examples are shown on the webpages. The great mystery is who wrote the captions? Odle certainly wrote the caption headings as can be seen from The Round-up on the…

  • Alan’s Odle’s Estate

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    The Probate Calendar for 1949 gives the following information: ODLE, Alan Elsden of Hillside Trevone Padstow Cornwall died 14th February 1948 Administration Bodmin 7 January to Dorothy Miller Odle widow. Effects £811 15s. Alan did not leave a will so his estate went to his widow, but of course there are no details, so we…

  • Gustave Flaubert

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    The Manuscripts entry book of the Chatto & Windus archive at the University of Reading records a manuscript submission in 1919 by Dorothy Richardson of a translation of Flaubert’s “The Legend of Saint Julian, Hospitaler” with illustrations by Alan Odle. It was declined, but there is no reader’s report extant to give a reason. Yet…