She dedicated it to Lily Clague
, Cleggy, her housekeeper/nanny. The title comes from a poem by G. K. Chesterton
. The book sold 16,000 copies.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
255 and n, 258
Friends, Associates
Elspeth Huxley
EH
relied for years on her housekeeper, Lily Clague
(known in the family as Cleggy), though she found her personally a trial. In the early 1960s Cleggy developed back pain which was diagnosed as...
