Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth Baron Dunsany

ML built friendships with her early patron, the successful Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, and his wife, Lady Beatrice . Each maintained a regular correspondence with her, Edward Dunsany discussing her writing and Beatrice chatting of...

The friends of EN 's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele , Edward Andrade , actresses Athene Seyler and Sybil Thorndike , and writers Noël Coward , G. B. Stern , Lord Dunsany

UKLG has said: I intended to be a writer, as long as I can remember. As a child she submitted a story (breezy in style, involving a time-machine and the origins of life...

ML 's The Green Grave and the Black Grave was published in Atlantic Monthly, following a recommendation to the editor by Edward Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (himself a popular writer).

During this visit to London, SB met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis (who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett , Kingsley Martin , Charles Morgan , Phyllis Bottome ,...

The London edition followed from Michael Joseph the next year, with a Reader's Union edition two years after that. There are several modern editions. A Town House paperback of 1996 has a new introduction by...

In a preface ML presents her ideas on short-story writing. She explains that her family obligations imposed a selectivity that I might not have otherwise been strong enough to impose on my often feverish overfertile...

The Mary Lavin Papers are held in the Morris Library at South Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. They contain about twenty short stories, most of those collected in The Great Wave and Other Stories...