A very happy birthday salute to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in WHO’S WHO (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the British Empire 🇬🇧 🫡
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Sir Harry’s storied career is too long for the ALT-text, but you can read it here:
https://sblazak.wordpress.com/sir-harry-flashman/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #NeoVictorian #Flashman #humor #BritishEmpire
“the books add up, by design or otherwise, to one of the most sustained and damning condemnations of imperialism in popular literature … It’s the books’ unlikely anti-imperial bona fides that make them surprisingly relevant today, not least because the same old adventures continue to take place on the same old battlefields.”
Matthew Calyfield on the continuing relevance of George MacDonald Fraser’s FLASHMAN novels
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https://meanjin.com.au/latest/why-read-the-flashman-papers-today/
“since this first volume of his purported ‘memoirs’ was published recently in the US, all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than 10 out of 42 reviewers—one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University—have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously”
—review of the first FLASHMAN novel in TIME Magazine, 1969
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https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,901382,00.html
Assoc for Scottish Literature
