‘Why Make a Long Story of it?’ The Publisher’s Writer’s Tale
‘A pilgrim in whose heart God had set eternity’[1] Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton was born on 22 September 1878, eldest son of Joseph William Darton (1844-1916) of ‘Lacklands,’ Beckenham, Kent.[2] He was educated at Sutton Valence Grammar School, Kent, Dover College and St John’s College, Oxford. While at St John’s, he joined reading parties […]
