Ashe Marson
The hero of Something Fresh, Ashe Marson is a young man from the village of Much Middleford, Salop., who as a youth, while playing truant from Sunday School, became adept at imitating two cats fighting in a backyard. He later attended Oxford, where he excelled more at athletics than in intellectual pursuits. He took a minor degree and became for a time a private tutor, prior to taking up the trade he plies when we first meet him, as writer of the popular Gridley Quayle mysteries, published by the Mammoth Publishing Company under the pseudonym Felix Clovelly.
Meeting Joan Valentine stimulates him to broaden his horizons and take on something new and exciting, and he soon falls in love with her while masquerading as a valet. An aficionado of physical fitness in all forms, and particularly Swedish exercises, Marson despises ill-health in others, and cures his employer Mr. Peters' indigestion with a regime of cold baths, exercise and beautiful thoughts.
In Something New, the U.S. version of the book, Marson is an American, born in Hayling, near Boston, Massachusetts; he later attended Harvard, before coming to England to continue his studies at Oxford under a Rhodes Scholarship.
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