Armiger Barclay

She grew to hate her weekly trips to London as her husband 's agent, dressed to his specifications.

According to HB 's own account, it was money that separated her from her first husband , as money had brought them together. While they were living alone for cheapness she sold a story as...

Marguerite Jervis married at Aylesbury registry office, without affection but intending a literary partnership, a writer or journalist, said to be the son of a Polish (naturalized British) Count: Armiger Barclay, formerly Barcynsky .

HB , having lived for years apart from her first husband , met Welsh writer (David) Caradoc Evans . The week of their first meeting he gave her a Bible inscribed to her as Marguerite...

HB married the Welsh writer and journalist (David) Caradoc Evans , with whom she had already been living. She says they married a year after Armiger Barclay died.

Under pressure from her parents, Marguerite Jervis became engaged to the eminently suitable Reggie. He gave her a superb ring; people gave her presents; but she looked on marriage merely as exchanging a homely...

The acquaintance of Marguerite Jervis with Armiger Barclay resulted from another chance encounter (through the daughter of the house where he was lodging). She already knew his satirical writing. Her description mentions his foreign appearance...

HB 's first marriage was a milestone in her early writing career. Armiger Barclay taught her how to punctuate, to paragraph, to type, how to display my goods. On the night of their wedding...

Marguerite's husband, Armiger Barclay , having criticised the plan for this novel as not suitable for family reading, found it when finished daring and provocative (qualities which its author denied). The preliminary pages...

HB seems to have resumed writing as Countess Barcynska after Armiger Barclay died. Let the Storm Burst, a Barcynska novel of 1941, deals with the impact of the Second World War, and claims...

The earliest dated Oliver Sandys novel, The Woman in the Firelight, was finished a few weeks after Marguerite Jervis 's wedding, using the idea of a good woman's bad life which her husband had vetoed.

One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite and Armiger Barclay was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is...

It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction). She remembered finishing it with her...

Years later HB was moved to write an autobiographical article of 12,000 words to refute something similar by Armiger Barclay in which he claimed to be the author of The Honey-Pot. It was through...

Pseudonyms, and their financial implications, ended HB 's first marriage. Armiger Barclay wanted her to write not as Sandys, under which name she reaped her own profits, but as Barcynska, which funnelled her earnings to...