MS
studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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She was painted...
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Daisy Ashford
The preface by J. M. Barrie
was a mixed blessing since the novella was widely rumoured to have actually been written by Barrie.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bolin, Alice. “Daring Daisy Ashford, the Greatest Ever Nine-Year-Old Novelist”. The Paris Review, 8 July 2013.
Many editions have been published, both in print and online, since 1919...
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Wendy Cope
Many of these poems first appeared in newspapers and periodicals: the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, and so on, and one pseudonymously as a submission...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Similar tiny, mostly square, hard-cover books followed for later Christmases: Mrs Scrooge, 2009, illustrated by Posy Simmonds
; The Christmas Truce, 2011, illustrated by David Roberts
(which had first appeared in The Guardian...
