William Somerset Maugham

The Times Literary Supplement found EM 's novel slightly malicious. She was sued by Somerset Maugham , on the basis that it was a hostile portrait of him.

Here, as well as at her London home, EA entertained new friends: writers Rose Macaulay , Somerset Maugham , and Michael Arlen , composer Ethel Smyth , and illustrator Ernest Shepherd .

Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in...

EG accepted the contract partly to revive her waning popularity and partly because, as always, she needed the money. Lasky also hired Somerset Maugham , Edward Knoblock , Maurice Maeterlinck , Sir Gilbert Parker ...

Jassy was the only picture scheduled for production when she and Sydney took over managing Gainsborough Studios in 1946, and even that was not ready to go, being not fully scripted. When the Boxes moved...

She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? She approaches...