Annabel Cash Papers 1969-1973

Brook Annabel b 1962

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Williamson, Henry, 1895-1977

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Henry Williamson (1895-1977), writer, was born in south London and educated at Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham. He fought in the army in the First World War and gained a deep sense of the futility of conflict as a result. He worked as a journalist for a short while before writing his first novel, 'The Beautiful Years', in 1921. This became volume one of a quartet, named 'The Flax of Dreams'. At the same time he moved to North Devon and, in 1927, wrote there 'Tarka the Otter', the book on which ...

Annabel Cash, b1962

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Henry Williamson (1890-1982), novelist, was the author of (among other works) Tarka the Otter and a cycle of fifteen novels collectively entitled A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, which was completed in 1960. He met Anna[bel] Cash in 1969, and wrote very frequently to her for the next year or so. The recipient became Anna Brook on her marriage in about 1973. For a fuller biographical description of Henry Williamson see EUL MS43. From the guide to the Annabel Cash Papers, 1969-1973, (U...