Sir Basil Henry Blackwell

Though a lover of solitude, ME was also sociable. She made lifelong friendships on her stay in Brittany at the age of seventeen. While staying with Mrs Lloyd-Jones she met Professor Ifor Williams and his...

Her father first cast an eye over what she proposed to publish, then at the last moment decided to accompany her to see the publisher, Basil Blackwell , apparently wanting to make sure that...

ME , with her sister Nancy/Sian and Helen Blackwell (daughter of the publisher Basil Blackwell ), opened a guesthouse, Springherne, at Bull's Hill, Walford-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

To finish writing it, she moved temporarily out of the family home to stay alone at a country pub some three miles away. She dedicated it to her father (explaining that he does not...

The journal passages, stretching back as far as early 1939, were extensively revised. Some had appeared in their new form in Life and Letters in 1940-1. ME planned to illustrate the book with a series...

She said of her poems that they flash through my head in the middle of the night or the early morning, with a great urgency. In 1945 she sought release from...

The title perhaps goes too far in colluding with the sense that only the Great War, and none of life before or after it, had meaning in MC 's account. Sir Basil Blackwell , who...