Bassington

Nicholas "Nick" Bassington-Hope, a controversial artist and veteran of the Great War, now on the cusp of fame, is found dead.

Jacqueline Winspear - An interview with author 2010

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Georgina Bassington-Hope believes her brother was murdered.

Jacqueline Winspear - An interview with author 2010

The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death.

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear: Book summary 2010

In his best-known novella, The Unbearable Bassington, which contains in the figure of Comus Bassington one of the two most obviously homoerotic of his protagonists (the other being the boy-werewolf Gabriel-Ernest in the story of the same name), the hero is a man named Tom Keriway, whose daredevil nature is summed up in the echoing phrase “a man that wolves have sniffed at.”

Where the Wild Things Are 2008

In his best-known novella, The Unbearable Bassington, which contains in the figure of Comus Bassington one of the two most obviously homoerotic of his protagonists (the other being the boy-werewolf Gabriel-Ernest in the story of the same name), the hero is a man named Tom Keriway, whose daredevil nature is summed up in the echoing phrase “a man that wolves have sniffed at.”

Where the Wild Things Are 2008

If you are Bertie Wooster and his pathetic friend Eustice Bassington-Bassington (pronounced baa-sington bay-sington), you turn to the greatest of British superheroes - (pause for dramatic effect) - Jeeves.

Jeeves Intervenes: A Play from First Folio ricklibrarian 2008

His first novel, "The Unbearable Bassington" (1912), presented a sustained study of the social poses that his stories merely mocked.

The Munro Doctrine of Humor 2008

Shaw, Firbank, Saki (in "The Unbearable Bassington" and the Clovis stories), and sometimes Evelyn Waugh, drew upon him directly, and many lesser men have lived off the style of social dandyism that he introduced into the language and into higher journalism.

Adventurer Hampshire, Stuart 1969

"England seems pretty well stocked up with Bassington-Bassingtons."

Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

Old Blumenfield told him in a few brief words pretty much what he thought of the Bassington-Bassingtons and what they weren't accustomed to.

Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928