Hilaire Belloc

In 1896 BRP travelled with her son to the United States. He later recalled that she found it appalling as all English people do (a sentiment to which, however, her daughter did...

Its title comes from some lines of poetry by Hilaire Belloc : There's nothing worth the wear of winning, / But laughter and the love of friends.

This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...

Her authors are mostly well-known: Hardy , Barrie , Sir Henry Newbolt , Hilaire Belloc , Hugh Lofting , and Walter de la Mare , apart from two stories by herself. Sales in...

MBL 's book about her brother 's early years, The Young Hilaire Belloc, appeared posthumously in the USA (edited by her daughter Elizabeth Iddesleigh ). It was never published in England.

RP published a volume entitled First and Second Poems 1912-1925. Hilaire Belloc covered her production costs (again) and supplied a preface which praises her work very highly.

Hilaire Belloc helped her to achieve this by paying for its publication out of his own pocket.

JS published The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard : verses about naughty children getting their deserts. Hilaire Belloc 's Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907, seems as much a model as Heinrich Hoffmann .

MBL resolved early on a writing career, and in 1888 became (through the influence of Cardinal Manning , a family friend), a journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her earnings contributed, in a tradition...

MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...

This is the novel chosen for analysis by Patrick Braybrooke in Some Goddesses of the Pen, 1928. He is clearly disturbed by EBO 's presentation of anti-semitism, but credits her with candour and straight...

Belloc 's preface quotes a passage from RP and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling and by Edith Sitwell to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit.

This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF insisted that this character was not based on...

Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...

Soon MC was once again, as during the war, writing not for herself alone but for a group. Women Demobilized, July 1919 deals with women whose men have been killed. It ends: Now in our...