Sian Evans

The child Peggy Whistler (later ME ) and her younger sister Nancy went to spend a year on their aunt Annie Lane 's farm called Benhall, near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, a place she already loved.

Their younger sister, Nancy Esther Whistler (the Sian or Siân of ME 's writings, Sian Evans in her own), was born in 1912. She and Peggy were particularly close.

ME , with her sister Nancy/Sian and Helen Blackwell (daughter of the publisher Basil Blackwell ), opened a guesthouse, Springherne, at Bull's Hill, Walford-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Now without a home of her own, ME spent a year living mostly with various relatives: her sister Betty at Uxbridge in Middlesex in the house next-door to the one where she was born; her...

Her first chapter ends with a simple declaration: The story of my epilepsy then is given here as an adventure of body and mind. The telling is as simple as I can make it and...

Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME 's teachers: Milton , Thomas Traherne , Walter de la Mare , and Thomas Hardy , the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...