Geoffrey Cumberlege

He was a poet in the intervals of a medical career specialising in tuberculosis. He wrote to her in appreciation of her prize-winning critique; when she met him she delighted in this couple of hours...

The series ended in December 1927, with the author about to move to Devon. In March 1943 FT discussed with her editor Geoffrey Cumberlege the idea of making the papers into a book; but...

During the 1930s and 40s FT worked at several unpublished novels. She never submitted any to a publisher, but she struggled with Gates of Eden, as well as doing her work for the Peverel Society

She submitted her work in fifteen chapters to Oxford University Press (no doubt for reasons of local loyalty), describing it as a fiction. Since the press did not deal with fiction they called it autobiography....

She worked on this second volume through various obstacles. In September 1939 she juggled her writing with making blackout curtains; then she and her husband moved house; and by summer 1940 there were bombers overhead....

She had begun this the summer after the war, calling it These Too Were Victorians. Her publisher, Geoffrey Cumberlege , wrote with congratulations on the first instalment she sent him, and offered her an...