They were raised in prep schools and public schools which still indoctrinated all the values of the late Victorians, in which Kipling was God: to be born an Englishman was the luckiest fate in the world, for we ran the greatest Empire the world had ever seen and deserved it because we were gentlemen who played the game, ie cricket and rugger, and believed in honour and duty and self-sacrifice and decency. The English writers of the 1930s were defined by the fact that they missed the Great War which nonetheless ruined their world.īorn in the 1900s they were at school when masters and older boys and older brothers went off to fight and die. Was there no escape – anywhere – for anyone? It was worth murdering a world.
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