How David Lodge invented Rummidge to explain Birmingham
The late author was the city’s quiet chronicler
Dear Patchers — earlier this month, one of Birmingham’s most accomplished novelists died at the age of 89. David Lodge came to the city in 1960 to take up his first academic post as a lecturer of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. In his novels, he satirised both campus life and the class distinctions prevalent in the second city at the…
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