Percival James Slater

Five years after she was to have married Bevil Quiller-Couch , MC got married very quietly, at Camden Hill in London, to Percival James Slater (PJ); the wedding was the...

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, who had also served with distinction...

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...

The critic and family friend Sir Walter Raleigh , who saw these poems before publication, called them heart-breaking and terribly naked. Once published, they brought MC many letters, among them one from Percival James Slater

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...