Sir Noel Paton

LW 's education at home included art lessons. She and her siblings soon became taken up with drawing in water-colours, inspired by the spring scenery of their home at Ballimore in Argyll. She...

MLM formed a friendship while she lived at Knutsford with John Byrne Leicester Warren, later Lord de Tabley , a poet and a man of wide historical and scientific interests. Her other friends included Ennis Graham

As a not-very-successful writer of adult fiction, MLM was advised by a friend, Sir Noel Paton , to try writing for children. She later ascribed her first venture that way entirely to his suggestion: He...