Lady Cynthia Asquith
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Standard Name: Asquith, Lady Cynthia
Birth Name: Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris
Styled: Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris
Married Name: Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith
Pseudonym: C. Greene
Pseudonym: A Correspondent
Pseudonym: Leonard Gray
Used Form: Cynthia Asquith
LCA
is chiefly remembered as a diarist of the First World War, who gives a unique picture on its impact, both detailed and profound, on the lives of the English governing class. She also published novels, literary biographies, anthologies, journalism, plays, ghost stories, and works for children.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Elizabeth Bowen | During the 1940s EB
published stories in the Listener (not for the first time), the New Yorker, Horizon, and the Cornhill, as well as in collections such as Penguin New Writing no... |
Anthologization | Marghanita Laski | ML
's ghost story The Tower, appeared in Cynthia Asquith
's The Third Ghost Book. OCLC WorldCat. Laski, Marghanita. “The Tower”. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories, edited by Michael Cox, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 210 - 16. 210 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Friends, Associates | Viola Meynell | VM
met Lawrence
through Ivy Low
. Enthusiastic about his writing, she offered to lend him her cottage and to do his typing. During his stay on the Meynells' property, Lawrence introduced Viola to Ottoline Morrell |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Angela Thirkell | Her literary friends included Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Lady Cynthia's mother Lady Wemyss
, Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir
, and E. V. Lucas
of Punch. With Lucas some kind of breach took place before the... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Webb | In London, despite the shyness that made literary life difficult for her, MW
became friends with May Sinclair
, Robert
and Sylvia Lynd
, Rebecca West
, novelist and critic Edwin Pugh
, and Lady Cynthia Asquith |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | In Rome during the First World War, DW
became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott
, and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners
. Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952. 133 |
Friends, Associates | Sir J. M. Barrie | Lady Cynthia Asquith
became SJMB
's private secretary after the First World War. She worked for him for years (she needed the money), using the pseudonym C. Greene. They became close to each other. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 256-8 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Through her marriage to Davies, Kennedy came into contact with the former Prime Minister Asquith
and his family. Her acquaintance with members of high society gave her considerable material for later fiction. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 77, 90 |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | CR
was mourned in a sonnet by Michael Field
shortly after her death. Her influence extended to many other poets of her own time or close to it, including Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Rosamund Marriott Watson |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | EB
's friend Desmond MacCarthy
approached Virginia Woolf
to review the book, but she refused, having taken a dislike to Bagnold and assuming that she had enmeshed poor old Desmond. Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne, 1986. 9 |
Textual Features | Enid Bagnold | The Squire, an unnamed upper-class woman, gives birth to her fifth child while her husband is doing business in India. The novel goes into detail about such matters as pregnancy, anaesthetics during childbirth, breastfeeding... |
Timeline
3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
1947
James Barrie
, great-nephew of playwright Sir James Barrie
, founded an imprint to publish popular books, among them Lady Cynthia Asquith
's diaries.