Charles Walter Stansby Williams

According to Williams , writing to the Times after her death, MB was planning another historical novel, this one to deal with the life of the Emperor Julian , known as Julian the Apostate.

AR published her first volume of Poems with Oxford University Press (thanks, she said, to her uncle Humphrey Milford and to Charles Williams ).

She also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield) , was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. While working at Faber & Faber , AR was often...