The class quiz
More
Eton- and Oxford-educated Cyril Connolly (1903-74) became a journalist and critic, writing for the New Statesman in the 1930s. From 1939 to 1950, he co-edited the magazine Horizon with poet Stephen Spender, and later was literary editor of the Observer. He also wrote the novel The Rock Pool (1938) and a volume of autobiography Enemies of Promise (1938). Like many middle-class intellectuals, Connolly – ‘this small, podgy, balding, pug-faced, funny, gossipy, lazy, clever, cowardly, hedonistic, fractious, difficult man’, according to novelist William Boyd – despised the suburbs as boring, conventional and conservative.
