"Adventures in spelling"

In the Times Literary Supplement, Alan Hollinghurst proposes another look at the oeuvre of Ronald Firbank.  Firbank's American publisher had good reason to decline to publish Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, sure enough: but, as with all writers who die at a relatively young age, one can only wonder what he would have done with another thirty years, and if he might have, eventually, achieved a sympathetically Catholic synthesis of 'brilliance' and 'viciousness'.  Did Flannery O'Connor read him?