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Brenan spent the next ten months in Germany, learning the language, surprisingly in preparation for joining the Indian Police Service, but this plan was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. He immediately joined the British Army and served in France throughout the war.
Another writer I once liked very much is Gerald Brenan. Brenan served with distinction in the first world war and afterwards carted 2,000 books to Yegen, a remote village in the Sierra Nevada,...
Jan 26, 2024 · The family tree lost its way, firstly with the premature death of the British hispanist's daughter, Miranda Brenan (1931-1980) and then that of the writer himself on 19 January 1987. Their deaths took some family secrets to the grave.
Jan 23, 1987 · Anglo-Irish writer Gerald Brenan, an intimate of the shockingly brilliant Bloomsbury group, whose books on Spain won him the love of his adopted countrymen, died Monday of heart failure. He...
Jan 24, 1987 · Gerald Brenan, a British author who wrote on Spanish history and culture, has died of heart failure, his doctor said today. He was 92 years old. The physician, Dr. Francisco Burgos, said Mr....
May 26, 2009 · He decided he was going to become a writer, but it was to be more than two decades before he got round to anything substantial. Having established a home in southern Spain, he returned to London to continue his on-off affair with Carrington and started to write a biography of Saint Teresa.
Jul 6, 2024 · On his return to Spain he began a series of autobiographical works, including South from Granada (1957), A Life of One's Own, and A Personal Record. From 1953 the Brenans lived in their house in Churriana (Malaga), La Reina de los Angeles. Gamel died of cancer in 1968, leaving Brenan heartbroken.
