Margot Asquith

Before her death LOM named three literary executors, including her friend Hope Mirrlees . Her literary estate consisted primarily of letters, journals, and her drafted memoirs. Obituaries by Virginia Woolf and Margot Asquith were...

Cynthia had met Herbert (Beb) in Dresden in 1903-4 through his sister Violet, when she was sixteen and Beb (born in 1881) was twenty-two. His mother had died in 1891, and three years later his...

VT and Prime Minister Asquith , who was nearly ten years her senior, shared a particularly close and long-lasting friendship, and he corresponded with her during her time in Italy. She had known him...

James Wallace , husband of EG 's sister Lucy , gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy...

Before he married Edith, Alfred suffered two great losses: his first wife, Laura (Margot Asquith 's sister, an emancipated woman, and a member of the Souls), died in childbirth...

ES was famous or notorious in her day. According to Constance Lytton , E. F. Benson painted her portrait as Edith Staines in his novel Dodo. A detail of the day, 1893, whose title...

EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater , Max Müller (whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett , Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and...

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith , Rhoda Broughton , and Henry James . She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house...

MB lost her job with British Instructional Films when they were flung into financial difficulty by the sudden rise of talking pictures. A reference from Anthony Asquith (son of Margot Asquith ), for whose Tell...

Virginia Woolf found that the production of this book required a lot of work in the closing stages from her as publisher. She received the (apparently corrected) proofs by 2 March in a state calculated...

To a collection entitled Myself When Young, edited by Lady Asquith (Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith), SP contributed an essay discussing her childhood and early education.

The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner (a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith

In this work MBL is still focussed chiefly on her earlier life. Among various developed characters is the redoubtable Margot Asquith .