1. Ralph Nicholas Chubb was an English poet, printer and artist.
17 Facts About Ralph Chubb
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Ralph Chubb's family moved to the historic town of St Albans before his first birthday.
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Ralph Chubb served with distinction but developed neurasthenia, and he was invalided out in 1918.
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From 1919 to 1922 Ralph Chubb studied at the Slade School of Art in London.
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Ralph Chubb went on to contribute several articles and poems for Underwood's magazine, The Island.
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Ralph Chubb's major painting The Well is in Wakefield; Southampton has bathers with boys wrestling, and there are nudes at Leamington, all illustrated in the Public Art Foundation catalogues.
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Ralph Chubb moved with his family to the village of Curridge, near Newbury in Berkshire.
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Ralph Chubb began to devote his artistic talents to the printed works which would remain his chief labour in life.
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Ralph Chubb's printing press was interrupted by the war, but in 1948 he entered into the third period of career with two massive volumes: The Child Of Dawn and Flames of Sunrise.
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Ralph Chubb was forever haunted by the memory of a young chorister at St Albans who disappeared from Chubb's life just as he had summoned up the courage to speak to him.
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Nonetheless, Ralph Chubb's work is of fascinating psychological significance; each of the various angels, knights, seers, and boy-gods in his dream world represents an aspect of his introspective and persecuted self.
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Ralph Chubb disparaged the scientists, orthodox theologians, and politicians of world, accusing them of squelching his personal thirst for liberty.
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Ralph Chubb sought to persuade his readers in An Appendix of the verity of his solipsism by illustrating some examples of serendipitous events from his life.
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Ralph Chubb's aim is more on the mark when he excoriates the taboos and frustrations of modern life.
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Ralph Chubb died peacefully at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire and was buried next to his parents at the Kingsclere Woodland Cemetery in Hampshire.
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None of the editions of Ralph Chubb's books exceed more than 200 copies, and some of his lithographed masterworks exist in only 30 or 40 copies, of which a mere six or seven are meticulously hand-coloured by Ralph Chubb.
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The dates and titles of Ralph Chubb's printed works are given below.