Among these readers, Ruth Pitter
became a valued friend of DW
,
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
175
as she did too of Vita Sackville-West
. Another friend of Wellesley's later years was Sir Ifor Evans
.
Health
Dorothy Wellesley
After her death Sir Ifor Evans
wrote that DW
was in her last years ridden with ill-health.
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death
Dorothy Wellesley
Her body was cremated.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
384
As far as Sir Ifor Evans
could trace, none of her obituaries mentioned her final and recent book of poetry.
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Textual Production
Dorothy Wellesley
Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats
for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin
for The Oxford Book...