Her close friend the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
wrote a Foreword to the volume. In her Author's Note, ML
confesses as a dark secret the fact that all my life I...
Textual Production
Blanche Warre Cornish
In 1915 she edited and contributed to Memorials of Robert Hugh Benson (published at London, New York and Toronto, with a second edition the same year), whose title-page attributes it to B. W. Cornish...
Textual Production
James Joyce
Preparing a defence against the allegations, Joyce's lawyer, Morris L. Ernst
, obtained hundreds of written opinions from educators, librarians, writers, clergy, and business people. Among those quoted in Ernst's court brief were Rebecca West
At Penns during the Second World WarDW
wrote of her fear—An explosion. I thought of my son. (Oh, don't think!) I thought of Hilda
(she is safe)—but also of solitude, of her...
Friends, Associates
Margery Lawrence
Among ML
's close friends were the Irish diplomat and writer Sir Shane Leslie
and the English war-poet Humbert Wolfe
(lover of Pamela Frankau
).
Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale.
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Fictionalization
Blanche Warre Cornish
Aldous Huxley
is said to have portrayed BWC
as Mrs Cravister in The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, 1920, while Shane Leslie
portrayed her as Mrs Thackeray in The Oppidan, 1922.
Rintoul, M. C. Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Routledge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Francis Warre Warre-Cornish
Anthologization
Viola Meynell
In December 1910, VM
and her siblings Francis
, Olivia
, and Monica
published a poetry anthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare
's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included...
Timeline
1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...