George Cabot Lodge — a remark

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“I am almost crazed with the desire to be independent, and yet I won't do anything that I don't approve and I won't give up my writing, God willing. I must keep at it and accomplish what I can in my own way.”

Asserting the priority of artistic integrity over conventional independence · Letter to his mother, July 1899

About George Cabot Lodge

George Cabot Lodge

10 October 1873–21 August 1909

The story of George Cabot Lodge is a story of two shadows: one cast by the immense, looming silhouette of a politically titanic father, and the other, the long, penumbral shadow of a premature and tragic end. Within the brief span of thirty-six years, Lodge crafted a body of work that was unapologetically…

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