Malcolm Josceline Nicolson

After a difficult labour, Malcolm Josceline John Sinclair Nicolson (son of Adela Nicholson or LH ), was born in Bombay, India.

Hope's poetry continued to appear in new editions well after her death. Laurence Hope's Poems, 1907, collected some stray pieces not about India; it was dismissed by Harold Williams as too inferior to mention...

Hope's papers are believed to be held by her grandson, Malcolm P. Nicolson . Her son, Malcolm Josceline Nicolson , showed an unpublished memoir to Lesley Blanch during the 1960s, but further researchers have been...

Hope's motivation for writing is unclear: Lesley Blanch rather floridly suggests that she wrote organically, for herself, for love of love, of India, in an explosion of emotion, a process of internal combustion.

Having inherited her uncle's wealth, VC left an estate valued at £87,304 10s 8d, with farm property in Northamptonshire and Shropshire. Her will became the subject of a protracted legal dispute: she had left...