Montague (1867-1928) was an English journalist, known also as a novelist and writer of essays. He was born and brought up in London, the son of a Roman Catholic priest who had left his vocation to marry, and was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890 he joined the Manchester Guardian where he became a leader writer and critic. Opposed to the First World War prior to its commencement, he gave it his support once it had begun in the hope of a swift resolution. Aged 47 in 1914, well over the ...
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Montague (1867-1928) was an English journalist, known also as a novelist and writer of essays. He was born and brought up in London, the son of a Roman Catholic priest who had left his vocation to marry, and was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890 he joined the Manchester Guardian where he became a leader writer and critic. Opposed to the First World War prior to its commencement, he gave it his support once it had begun in the hope of a swift resolution. Aged 47 in 1914, well over the age for enlistment, he dyed his white hair black to fool the Army into accepting him. He began as a grenadier-sergeant, rising to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield, including H G Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of the war he wrote in a strong anti-war vein and Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is regarded by many as a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War.
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