Ian Parsons

In winter 1953 EJH , aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus , which was then run by Norah Smallwood and Ian Parsons . She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them...

A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find.SS resubmitted her poetry...

Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...