Christopher J. R. Armstrong

However, her renunciation of war did not prevent her from undertaking any humanitarian effort related to war. Biographer Christopher Armstrong notes that in the years leading up to the war, both EU and her husband...

Marie Belloc Lowndes thought this novel and The Grey World had a quality of poetical beauty no writer has since attained. She deplored a later slighting reference to these novels, and liked them better than...

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

After she met Rabindranath Tagore , then at the height of fame, in 1912, EU went on to write three reviews of his books for the Nation. The two maintained a friendship and correspondence...