Frank Thompson

IM helped to fill the unaccustomed gap between novels in 1958 by writing a sequence of poems dedicated to her Precious dead, Frank Thompson and Franz Steiner .

During her student days IM attracted innumerable admirers, women as well as men: at times it seemed that everyone was in love with her. They included the first of two men whom she loved deeply...

In November 1945, after more than seven years of separation, IM again met David Hicks , whom she had known as a somewhat older and more worldly student at Oxford. She had been corresponding with...

Conradi (whose edition embraces a youthful diary from August 1939, while IM was on the road with a student theatre group, and runs of letters to Frank Thompson and Philip Hicks ) writes that before...