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.
Black and white photograph of Lady Cynthia Asquith, in profile, sitting on a carved bench. She is wearing a loose-fitting dress with thin stripes and a pattern superimposed, a wrist-watch, and a long, simple pendant. Her hair is loosey pinned back in a bun.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Among the many poets gathered here, inescapable choices like Wilfred Owen , Siegfried Sassoon , Isaac Rosenberg , and Robert Graves rub shoulders with the unexpected, like Cynthia Asquith , Sarojini Naidu , and Gertrude Stein .
Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
Performers included Cynthia Asquith as St Ursula and Diana Manners as a thousand virgins.
qtd. in
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
84
Ursula was said to have been martyred together with her thousand virgin companions, though this legend probably stems from a...
Textual Production Viola Meynell
Lady Cynthia Asquith , who had been a close friend of Barrie's, and who since his death in 1937 was managing his estate, approached VM about editing a selection of his letters that would allay...

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