Five years after she was to have married Bevil Quiller-Couch
, MC
got married very quietly,
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books, 2000.
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at Camden Hill in London, to Percival James Slater
(PJ); the wedding was the...
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May Cannan
MC
received letters about her second and third books of poetry from Percival James Slater
(known as PJ), a solicitor in some obscure town called Walsall,
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who had also served with distinction...
Literary responses
May Cannan
The critic and family friend Sir Walter Raleigh
, who saw these poems before publication, called them heart-breaking and terribly naked.
qtd. in
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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Once published, they brought MC
many letters, among them one from Percival James Slater
Literary responses
May Cannan
Another letter from Percival James Slater
was among the many that MC
received about this book; it made him long to meet her, but raised some question about the utility of her view that all...
Literary responses
May Cannan
Her husband, PJ, evidently could not stand this plot which seemed to negate his own existence. MC
later wrote, I had married a man who had sought and found me across time and space...