Violet Powell

During her last year at Cheltenham , MK heard W. B. Yeats lecture on the Irish poet and playwright J. M. Synge .

Her father, Charles Moore Kennedy , followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a barrister. Charles Kennedy, who maintained an unambitious attitude towards life never practised law, choosing instead the life of a country gentleman...

Richard Bennett , a personal friend and the author of MK 's entry in the old Dictionary of National Biography, describes her as emotionally crushed by the death of her husband. Kennedy and Davies...

Among the chorus of praise which greeted this novel, FAS most cherished a letter from a man whose wife had died in the Mutiny, telling her that her work had enabled, him, at last, to...

Violet Powell dismisses the sensational events of this novel and later ones in the same category as dizzying in their effects, but praises FAS 's sure touch with the social detail of clothes and houses.

Punch and the TLS gave the novel good reviews. The TLS reviewer speculated that the novelist was a woman because of her use of the word camisole. Critic and biographer Violet Powell has judged...

Her biographer Violet Powell suggests that her role as president of the Women's Institute probably influenced the Clerk of the Court's decision to chose her as a candidate for the Commission of the Peace ...

There exists (in 2013) only one biography of MK —by Violet Powell (1983)—and apart from reviews there is almost no critical work to date except in French, mostly treating the adaptation of The Constant Nymph...

During EMD 's childhood, her family had a country estate at The Falls, Llandogo, Monmouthshire. The house (now a nursing home) stands near Tintern Abbey (scene of a famous poem by Wordsworth ). EMD

FAS appears to have been for some time in India before she began writing, or at least writing for publication. Biographer Violet Powell says that an important influence on her early work was Fazli ...

From Calcutta they travelled by train to Delhi, then by box on wheels to Lahore, then, emphasising the inefficiency of the Indian Civil Service , they were forced to retrace their steps...