Stephen Spender

She helped the poet Stephen Spender early in his career by bringing his work to the attention of Louis Untermeyer .

RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood

ES 's sister-in-law, the former Lily Headland , became first an essayist as the Rev. L. Spender, then a novelist as Mrs John Kent Spender or Mrs Lily Spender. She was also grandmother...

It was dedicated to the poet Stephen Spender and his wife Natasha .