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Desmond MacCarthy

Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1878-1952) was an English critic, a member of the "Bloomsbury group".

MacCarthy was born in Plymouth, England, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a journalist, editing periodicals such as New Quarterly, Eye Witness and Life and Letters. He joined the New Statesman[?] in 1913, becoming its literary editor a few years later. He was a literary critic for the Sunday Times, and several volumes of his collected criticism were published.

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