Bartlett, Vernon
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1894-1983) UK broadcaster, politician and author, who was severely disillusioned by his World War One experiences, and who served as an Independent MP 1938-1950. If I Were Dictator (1935 chap) – in the If I Were Dictator sequence, one of whose contributors was Lord Dunsany – reflected his centrist politics, and his dubiousness about dictatorships, even "benevolent". His sf novel proper, Tomorrow Always Comes (1943), describes in fictional terms the task of reconstructing a defeated Germany after the end of World War Two. [JC]
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett
born Westbury, Wiltshire: 30 April 1894
died Yeovil, Devon: 18 January 1983
works
- If I Were Dictator (London: Methuen, 1935) [chap: in the publisher's If I Were Dictator series: hb/]
- Tomorrow Always Comes (London: Chatto and Windus, 1943) [hb/]
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