Sir John Gielgud

JT carefully guarded her privacy. Former neighbours reported that she was very reclusive and did most of her writing in a tiny summerhouse. The Inverness Courier's account of her death notes that she did...

On an early visit to London, JT was deeply moved by John Gielgud 's Hamlet, and subsequently began a professional relationship with him. Each played an important role in the other's career: Gielgud helped JT

JT wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later...

John Gielgud persuaded Daviot to revise the play after this initial production, the result of which, he claims, was that she improved the play, by a few brilliant strokes, almost beyond recognition. Until these...