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.

Butts idealises her childhood home at Salterns on the shores of Poole Harbour as a place of extreme natural beauty that contrasts with the filth of the modern world: Half of Poole Harbour is still...

Although her work received mixed reviews, MB was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound , Marianne Moore