Valmouth is a 1919 novel by the English author Ronald Firbank. Valmouth is an imaginary British spa resort that attracts centenarians because of its famous pure air. The name of this city evokes the true seaside towns on the southwestern peninsula of England, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth, and Weymouth.
The novel's plot involves, among other things, the effects of a black woman and her niece moving to a spa resort occupied by wealthy centenarians. The ironic novel is about eroticism and exoticism in the strange and obscene old English neighborhood of a fictitious spa. The novel is renowned for its florid and baroque style and humor of parody, and its both heterosexual and homosexual sexual innuendo. There is also a remarkable Catholic brand, a blend of meat purification, high mysticism, and proselytism.
In 1958, a musical adaptation was made by Sandy Wilson.
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Summary
Two elderly ladies of Valmouth, Mrs Hurstpierpoint and Mrs Thoroughfare, are concerned about the prospect of second son's marriage, Captain Dick Thoroughfare. The Captain, deep in the sea, was somewhat involved in a scandal with a black girl, Niri-Esther, but she also liked her 'best friend', Jack Whorwood.
Thetis Tooke, a local peasant daughter, is obsessed with Captain Thoroughfare. Meanwhile, her exotic avalanche Mrs. YajÃÆ' ± avalkya, a black masseuse and chiropodist, tries to have sex with the agile Thetis brother David for a fifteen-year-old woman, Parvula de Panzoust.
Finally, Captain Thoroughfare returned to England. Bright that he had married Niri-Esther, that they had a baby, and that she was also pregnant with her second child.
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Main characters
- Mrs Eulalia Hurstpierpoint , a widow. She lives in Hare-Hatch House.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Thoroughfare , another widow, a friend of Mrs Hurstpierpoint at Hare-Hatch House.
- Lady Parvula de Panzoust , a widow and friend of the Hare-Hatch introduction; he was brought along with young breeder David Tooke.
- Mrs YajÃÆ' Â ± avalkya , a dark-skinned Eastern-born woman, who is a masseuse and chiropodist woman.
- Niri-Esther , a dark-skinned young woman, nephew of Mrs. YajÃÆ' ± avalkya. Captain Dick Thoroughfare , son of Mrs Thoroughfare, away in Jamaica, who returned and had "married" Niri-Esther.
- Miss Thetis Tooke , a peasant princess, who is crazy about Captain Thoroughfare.
- David Tooke , brother of Thetis, a farmer.
- Mrs Tooke , grandmother to Thetis and David, and YajÃÆ' Â ± avalkya massage client.
- Lieutenant Whorwood , a sissy man who is Captain Dick Thoroughfare 'chum'.
- Father Colley-Mahoney , a minister, who seemed to love male servants a lot.
Musical theater adaptation
In 1958, a musical with the same name was adapted by Sandy Wilson from this and other Firbank stories. It opened at Lyric Theater Hammersmith, in London. The musical has been staged several times, and several recordings of casting albums have been released. This musical has also been done on BBC radio, first broadcast in 1975.
References to Valmouth in other works
- The protagonist William Beckwith reads Valmouth in the 1988 Alan Hollinghurst novel the Swimming Pool Library .
Footnote
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