Frederic manning biography

Frederic manning biography

The novel, Her Privates We, was described by critics as the true voice of the trenches and is still available today.

The author was the novelist and poet Frederic Manning who was born at Sydney on 22nd July 1882, the fourth son of Sir William Manning, financier and politician and four times Lord Mayor of Sydney, and his wife Honora, both of Irish descent.

He was a lifelong asthmatic and at the age of fifteen he came to England with his tutor the Rev Arthur Galton who had gone to Australia as private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Robert Duff.

Galton was appointed Vicar of Edenham, near Bourne, in 1904, and Manning, who had decided to pursue a literary career, went to live with him at the vicarage.

He remained there until Galton died in office in 1910 when he moved in as a lodger with the village schoolmaster