Cecil Maitland

After reading her diary and discovering her infidelity with Cecil Maitland (and not long after the birth of their child), John Rodker left MB .

MB 's affair with Cecil Maitland , a Scottish writer and critic, lasted from 1920 to February 1925. He died in 1926. MB was drawn to him because of the delicious states he evoke[d] in...

After separating from her husband, MB left her daughter Camilla with a friend and went with Maitland to Paris, before embarking with him on further travels. Throughout the 1920s she moved back and forth...

MB was already committed to a hedonistic lifestyle which she felt to be justified or even inescapable after the suffering and nihilism produced by the first world war. Through her relationship with Maitland , she...

The Montparnasse group with whom they visited included Ernest and Hadley Hemingway , Sylvia Beach , Mary Butts , Nancy Cunard , Cecil Maitland , Mina Loy , and Nina Hamnett . Richardson was disappointed...