While in America, SB
became a friend of poet and playwright Witter Bynner
.
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Edna St Vincent Millay
In New York in her twenties she had a string of lovers, many of them already famous or later to become so. Floyd Dell
, editor, playwright, and novelist, claimed to have been the first...
Intertextuality and Influence
Penelope Shuttle
The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
She had an extremely strong sense of privacy. Though at first she was pleased by the suggestion of an American journalist, Witter Bynner
, that he should interview her, and though she liked him when...