Hector Hugh Munro

In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann. Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham, and Mary Moore

MS worked as secretary/treasurer of Dr Hector Munro's Motor Field Ambulance Corps for the relief forces in Belgium; she was also to be a reporter of their activities.

Her short stories have been compared to writings by Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, and Saki.

AL's style and reputation are bound up with those of Oscar Wilde. Her biographer Charles Burkhart accepts that Wilde was the catalyst of her writing career, though he insists that she does not...