Author: W. P. Frith

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• D. J. Taylor (1)
  • IN: Derby Day (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I felt sure that if I could find a theme capable of affording me the opportunity of showing an appreciation of the infinite variety of everyday life, I had confidence enough in my power of dealing with it successfully; but the subject - then, as now and ever, the chief difficulty - where was I to find a scene of such interest and importance as to warrant my spending months, perhaps a year or two, in representing it? Until the year of which I write - 1854 - I had never seen any of the great horse races for which England is so famous, and my first experience of the modern Olympian games was at Hampton, when the idea occured to me that if some of the salient points of the great gathering could be grouped together, an effective picture might be the result...
    FROM: The Derby Day', My Autobiography and Reminiscence, (1887), Book, UK