William Somerset Maugham

By the 1920s most of AL 's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham and Ronald Firbank , and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland

The Blessing did not do so well as its two predecessors; Antonia Fraser feels that it marked a decline in fictional achievement.NM wrote that My Blessing has had the most awful reviews you ever...

The Times Literary Supplement found EM 's novel slightly malicious. She was sued by Somerset Maugham , on the basis that it was a hostile portrait of him.

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...

She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? She approaches...

Here, as well as at her London home, EA entertained new friends: writers Rose Macaulay , Somerset Maugham , and Michael Arlen , composer Ethel Smyth , and illustrator Ernest Shepherd .