Ronald Campbell MacFie

Flora Thompson published her first book, a poetry volume entitled Bog Myrtle and Peat, dedicated to Dr Ronald Campbell MacFie .

Her other literary mentor figure, Ronald Campbell MacFie , a doctor and medical researcher as well as a writer, collaborated with her on several publications (all of which deal with fairies). Around the time of...

FT met Dr Ronald Campbell MacFie , as a consequence of her criticism of his ode on the sinking of the Titanic.

FT had grown up reading poetry and wishing to be a poet. For years this was the direction of her deepest literary aspirations, in which Ronald Campbell MacFie helped and encouraged her. Stressful periods in...

The available sources represent Ronald Campbell MacFie (a fairly successful poet who in 1909 began collaborating with LMS on books about fairies) as a benign influence on her work. But among his own poems is...

Through her supporter Ronald Campbell MacFie she secured the patronage of Lady Margaret Sackville , whose name appeared on the society's letterhead. FT wrote detailed criticisms on every submission, and also circulated each member's work...

FT won a more prestigious competition, run by The Literary Monthly, for the best critique of an ode they had printed, written by Ronald Campbell MacFie , on the sinking of the Titanic.

During her early years as a publishing poet, LMS also wrote fiction for children in verse and in prose. In 1909 she began writing fairy-tales in collaboration with Scottish poet Ronald Campbell MacFie . They...