Author and publisher (Horatio) Lovat Dickson (1902-87), known as Rache, wrote several biographical works, the best of which is The Ante-Room: Early Stages in a Literary Life. This short biography recounts Rache's highly textured recollections of childhood experiences travelling from Australia to Rhodesia to England with a mining engineer father from a Canadian shipping family, followed by adventures and misadventures in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Temiskaming, until moving to...
More DescriptionAuthor and publisher (Horatio) Lovat Dickson (1902-87), known as Rache, wrote several biographical works, the best of which is The Ante-Room: Early Stages in a Literary Life. This short biography recounts Rache's highly textured recollections of childhood experiences travelling from Australia to Rhodesia to England with a mining engineer father from a Canadian shipping family, followed by adventures and misadventures in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Temiskaming, until moving to Alberta to study literature under Edmund Broadus.