Arthur Barker

To finish writing it, she moved temporarily out of the family home to stay alone at a country pub some three miles away. She dedicated it to her father (explaining that he does not...

LR and Robert Graves had agreed with Arthur Barker that he would advance them £500 a year to publish a series of their works—of which Riding's The Word 'Woman', appeared only posthumously.

Reviewers were delighted. Some accepted her implication that the letters were importantly representative of the spirit of the age, while The Observer concentrated on entertainment value: an extemely well-gingered piece of gingerbread. The book...

All LR 's other literary endeavours while she lived in Mallorca were subordinated to the hugely ambitous collaborative scheme which she dubbed The Critical Vulgate. This was to involve numbers of writers and artists...