Marguerite Steen

Other plums were Max Beerbohm , H. G. Wells , Somerset Maugham , J. B. Priestley , and Humbert Wolfe . Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS suggested that she...

Rendered homeless by a bomb on the Albany in Piccadilly, GBS moved first to a hotel at a place she calls Bramblebury (apparently Blewbury in Berkshire), where her friend and fellow-novelist Marguerite Steen