Onwards and upwards

A quick search for the Mr. E. J. Upward of the last post revealed that he was almost certainly Mr. E. F. Upward, with a small, florid 'F' being previously misread as a 'J'.

His wikipedia entry says that he was a student at Cambridge at the right time. Furthermore, as was proper at that time, a serious leftie, later softening into a ban the bomber. Friends with Auden and Spender.

Furtherevenmore, in later life he lived at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, overlapping with the period when we holiday'd close by. It is possible that that is where I bought this copy of 'As you like it', although I have no recollection of same. Perhaps another gap in the google search armoury.

Reference 1: http://www.edwardupward.info/.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=deighton. From which I am reminded that our copy of 'Hamlet', of the same vintage, also came from Upward,

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Upward.

Reference 4: http://www.maggs.com/. While I have almost certainly walked past this shop, I almost certainly did not buy these two Ardens there. Not my sort of shop at all, at least not for practical purposes.