Newman Flower

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• New information about Flower's career path (unpaid apprenticeship) and about how his biographies were received over time has been added. There are now explicit contemporary quotes and later scholarly pushback surrounding Handel.

Add: His biographies were much admired at the time but have subsequently been criticised for over cautious discretion. Add: Ernest Newman wrote that it was a biography of Handel that for interest and accuracy is without a superior the most complete study of Handel as a man that we have in English in 1927 The Bookseller said that it was recognised as the standard work on the subject both here and in America Later writers on Handel have disputed Flower's portrait of Handel as sexless.

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