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“... were attaching their styles and their ambitions. In a lengthy but highly readable biography, Vincent Brome has some interesting things to say about Priestley’s own reaction to the attitude towards him taken by the highbrows. Like many deeply religious men, Lewis had a kind of basic and inexpugnable innocence which seems to have left him wholly ...”

“... we breathe may be fading, like smoke from a distant fire. This feeling is strengthened by reading Vincent Brome’s diligently researched biography of Ernest Jones. At the end of his life the charming old autocrat remarked that he had always been ‘an old-fashioned materialist’ and a disciple of T.H. Huxley. This is a revealing admission of how little ...”

“... but he was more commonly known as ‘Freud’s rottweiler’. Jones’s previous biographer, Vincent Brome, spent an afternoon with Jones in his Jacobean farmhouse in Sussex arguing over the merits of Brome’s earlier subject, the sexologist Havelock Ellis. Brome admitted that ...”

“... it is now, A Modern Utopia was, at the time, the most influential book Wells had written. As Vincent Brome recalled, it was ‘widely read by university students’ and observably affected their moral behaviour – particularly in its Fabian advocacy of free love. Other seeds may also have been planted by the work, in Britain and in Europe. Michael ...”