Hilaire Belloc

In 1896 BRP travelled with her son to the United States. He later recalled that she found it appalling as all English people do (a sentiment to which, however, her daughter did...

RP published a volume entitled First and Second Poems 1912-1925. Hilaire Belloc covered her production costs (again) and supplied a preface which praises her work very highly.

Hilaire Belloc helped her to achieve this by paying for its publication out of his own pocket.

Belloc 's preface quotes a passage from RP and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling and by Edith Sitwell to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit.

JS published The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard : verses about naughty children getting their deserts. Hilaire Belloc 's Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907, seems as much a model as Heinrich Hoffmann .

After the Convent of the Sacred Heart, AW was sent to St Paul's Girls' School . The gentle social pressure which here took the place of draconian discipline meant nothing to her: she wore outrageous...