Emily Mirrlees

T. S. Eliot became a paying guest of HM , her mother , and her aunt at their home in Surrey. He stayed here intermittently for several years, though he was usually in London...

HM 's mother, Emily (Moncrieff) Mirrlees (usually called Lena or Lina), was a Scotswoman from a family with strong professional links to the law. Her relationship with Hope was often somewhat troubled, but mother...

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

The two lived together at 11 Mecklenburgh Street, where they studied, wrote, and HM cared for Harrison for rather under two years, until her death on 15 April 1928. Some time after this...

During the Second World War HM lived at The Shambles in Shamley Green near Guildford, Surrey. She lived here with her mother, Lena Mirrlees , an aunt, Constance Moncrieff , and a number of...