AW made several new friends during her seventies. They included Sorbonne professor Gabriel Boucé, the German poet Fred Marnau and his wife Senta, the novelist Kate O'Brien, and the actress Elizabeth Sprigge
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Anne Ridler
Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne's Mercury Theatre, but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
The manuscript had been due in August 1964. At that time she told Gollancz then that it was not ready, but in a lamentable state.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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She worked on it to the end: a week...
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Texts
Sprigge, Elizabeth, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. “Foreword”. The Last and the First, Gollancz, 1971, pp. 7-12.
Stein, Gertrude, and Elizabeth Sprigge. Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures: 1909-1945. Editor Meyerowitz, Patricia, Penguin, 1971.
Compton-Burnett, Ivy et al. The Last and the First. Gollancz, 1971.