Maxwell Armfield

Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy , writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw in the Nation...

The year 1974 marks a turning point in AJ 's writing career, beginning a second phase which proved just as significant as the first.. Soon after moving with her family from London to Lyme Regis...

During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell and Ramsay MacDonald (though GHS felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and...

CS married Maxwell Ashby Armfield , a painter, book illustrator, and poet, later a theosophist.

Her husband, Maxwell Armfield , outlived her by thirty-one years (to die on 23 January 1972). He later said that his mature style dated from the time of his wife's death. He left many self-portraits...

After this she became a star student at the Birmingham School of Art, an even more exciting arena for adventure. Again her memoirs lovingly enumerate the names of her teachers, fellow-students (divided...

Stanley Unwin 's wife read the manuscript and told her husband that he had got to publish the novel for the sake of its ideas. (Unwin was an internationally-minded pacifist.) The firm signed a contract...