Fortune Press Writers
Hugh Ulric Swinscow Nisbet ( or
Nisbit)
1897-1987
Author of Fortune Press title " SPREAD NO WINGS"
Nisbet for a writer and scholar.
A determined sleuth in search of the
identity of the person to whom William Shakespeare dedicated the intriguing “ Sonnets”,
concluding that the bard's dedicatee was one William Herbert, a member of the
Earl of Powis’s lineage. [ The debate there still rages.]
Fortune Press published Nisbet’s
novel “Spread No Wings” ( 1937).
A curious tale of a marriage.
See Timothy D’Arch Smith 401
Among Nisbet’s other works are:
Thoughts on the purpose of art
(1934),) “ Old school tie: recollections of Marlborough before the First World
War” (1964). Under the pseudonym Hugh Callaway he published “The onlie
begetter”(1936), “ Bridge to world man” (1960), “Super-sense: a beginning”
(1967) and “The new consciousness (alternative to chaos)” (1971).
He married the American artist
Christine Bacheler (1902-1991)
They settled in Salcombe, Devon.
WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT
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