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Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001

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Elizabeth Joan Jennings was born on July 18, 1926, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, to Henry Cecil Jennings, a medical officer of health, and Helen Mary Turner. Raised as a Roman Catholic, she attended Rye St. Antony School and later Oxford High School. When Jennings was thirteen years old she discovered poetry, first struck by Chesterton's The Battle of Lepanto. She found early encouragement in teachers and an uncle, himself a poet. Jennings studied English at St. Anne's College, Oxford from 1...

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph and typewritten letters and notes signed "Graham" (62) : London, etc., to his brother, Herbert, 1945 May 11-1955 Sept. 12 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497418 From the description of Graham Greene letters to Mercia Harrison, 1945-1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279409 English writer and dramatist. From the description of Graham Greene Collecti...

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998

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Epithet: OM, CH, composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000051 English composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Tidebrook, 26 June 1986 to an unidentified recipient, 1986 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873831 British composer. From the description of Sketches for New Year. / Here superseded / Michael Tippett / 1987 [manuscript]. (...

Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie)

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MacInnes, Colin

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Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975

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Purdy, James

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Macbeth, George

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Kirkup, James, 1918-2009

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James Kirkup (1918 - ) was born in South Shields, County Durham and educated at Durham University. The travel writer, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and broadcaster has authored over thirty works. Kirkup became the first Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University (1950-1952). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature (1962). From the description of James Kirkup poems (MS 20), ca. 1942-1956. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 255131964 Fro...

Wellington, Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of, 1885-1972

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Lehmann, John, 1907-1987

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Epithet: writer and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0001d8 John Lehmann was an English author, poet, journalist, editor, and publisher. He was founder and editor (1936-1950) of NEW WRITING, manager (1938-1946) of Hogarth Press, founder and director (1946-1952) of John Lehmann, Ltd. (publishers), founding editor (1953-1961) of LONDON MAGAZINE, and visiting professor at various universities. He al...

Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972

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Cecil Day Lewis was a British poet and writer of detective stories under the name Nicholas Blake. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Cecil Day Lewis collection. [1929-ca. 1930s]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848431 Cecil Day-Lewis was born on 27 April 1904 at Ballintubbet in Ireland, the only child of the Reverend Frank Cecil Day-Lewis, a Church of Ireland cu...

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998

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Assia Wevill was born Assia Gutman on May 15, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, Lisa, was a German Protestant, and her father, Lonya, was a Russian Jew. In the late 1930s, the family fled to Tel Aviv to escape the Nazis. Wevill first married John Steel in London in 1946, and from there emigrated to Canada, sending visas to her family in Israel. In Vancouver, she met her second husband, Richard Lipsey, whom she divorced in 1960 to marry her third husband, David Wevill. The Wevills met Ted Hug...

Eliot, Valerie

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Gunn, Thom

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Nance, R. Morton (Robert Morton)

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Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013

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British author. From the description of Collection, 1951-1962. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597893 Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931 in Leicester) is a prolific British writer. He first came to prominence as a philosopher and has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, fiction and other topics. From the description of Colin Wilson collection. [1952-1965]. (University of Victoria...

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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English composer, writer, actor, and producer. From the description of Signature on his visiting card, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899310 Badger's Green opened Jun. 12, 1930. From the description of Letter [1930] Jun. 20 [London] to Maurice Browne [London] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365183 English actor and author. From the description of The Birth of Hope : autograph manuscript signed ...

Sitwell, Francis

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Rawlings, Margaret

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Guinness, Alec, 1914-

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Whicker, Lawrence R.

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Waley, Alison

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Pudney, John, 1909-1977

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British poet, novelist, and editor. From the description of Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122692658 John Sleigh Pudney, British poet, novelist, editor, and journalist was born on January 19, 1909, in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England. The only son of Henry William Pudney and Mabel Sleigh Pudney, he was reared in the country, but was sent away for his educati...

Lucie-Smith, Edward

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Literary and art critic, poet, free-lance journalist, editor, and partner in Turret Books. From the description of Papers. 1963-1975. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23949782 ...

Poetry Society.

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Moore, Gerald E., 1929-

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Stanford, Derek

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Bantock, Gavin, 1939-....

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Plomer, William, 1903-1973

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William Plomer was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, librettist, and songwriter. From the description of William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122575712 From the guide to the William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) William Plomer was born in South Africa and educated in England. After ...

Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967

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Vernon Phillips Watkins was born in Wales, and lived nearly his entire life near Swansea. He had written poetry since his youth, and attended Cambridge University for one year before leaving, ultimately taking a job with Lloyd's bank as a clerk. After a serious breakdown, he took a job at a different branch of Lloyd's, staying until he retired in 1966, but refusing advancement--he remained a clerk in order to devote time to his poetry. He became a close friend of Dylan Thomas, and published indi...

Whyte, Lancelot Law, 1896-1972

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Born in Scotland; scientist and physicist, banker, writer, and lecturer. From the description of Lancelot Law Whyte collection, 1925-1973. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 71015282 ...

Causley, Charles, 1917-2003

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Charles Stanley Causley, poet, teacher and broadcaster, the only son of Charles Causley and Laura Bartlett, was born in Launceston, Cornwall on 24th August 1917 and educated at Launceston National School, Horwell Grammar School, Launceston College and Peterborough Training College. His father, a groom and gardener, died in 1924 from tuberculosis exacerbated due to gas exposure during the First World War, and Charles left school at 15 to work in a builder's office and then for an ele...

Carman, Philip, 1911-

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Garnett, Richard

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Betjman, John, Sir, 1906-

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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008

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English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, left-wing political activist and poet. From the description of Landscape : typescript with autograph revisions : [England?, 1967]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914943 English playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and poet. From the description of Harold Pinter Collection, 1960-1980. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590489 ...

Heath-Stubbs, John, 1918-2006

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00012b John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, the poet, was born in London in 1918 and educated at Worcester College for the Blind and The Queen's College, Oxford; he published his first poems in the wartime volume, Eight Oxford Poets . He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University between 1952 and 1955, then taught in foreign universities for several...

Thomas, D. M.

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Middleton, Christopher, 1926-....

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English poet, essayist, translator, and educator. From the description of Papers, 1954-1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590280 Christopher Middleton, poet, essayist, and translator, was born June 10, 1926, in Truro, Cornwall, England. He attended Merton College at Oxford, where he earned his B. A. degree in 1951 and his D. Phil. in 1954. He lectured in English literature at Zurich Univer...

Barker, George, 1913-1991

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George Granville Barker (1913-1991), the English poet, was born in Essex. He taught in Japan and the United States as well as in England. His highly dramatic poems, often concerned with themes of remorse and pain, led critics to place him, perhaps misleadingly, among the 'New Apocalypse' movement. Barker's published works include: 30 Preliminary Poems (1933); Eros in Dogma (1944); News of the World (1950); The True Confession of George Barker (1950); The View From a Blind I (1962); Thurgarton Ch...

Roche, Paul, 1927-

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Abbott, E. S. (Eric Symes), 1906-

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Epithet: Dean of Westminster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x000014 ...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Nijinsky, Romola de Pulszky

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Olivier, Laurence, 1907-

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Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

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Kathleen Raine was born in London, her father was a schoolmaster, and the family strict Methodists. She was sent to stay with an aunt in rural Northumberland for the duration of World War I, an idyllic childhood period she later recalled in 'Farewell Happy Fields' (1973). She was educated at Ilford County High School and came to Girton as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences then Moral Sciences 1926-29. While she was at Cambridge she began writing poetry and also made long-term friendships w...

Clark, Leonard

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Taylor, A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale), 1906-1990

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Hollo, Anselm.

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Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971

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Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist. The witty, idiosyncratic, and individual style of her poems make her writing difficult to classify but easy to appreciate. From the description of Stevie Smith letters and poems, 1946-1966. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50163405 British author; born Florence Margaret Smith. From the description of Papers, 1943-1970. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26090149 ...

Church, Richard

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Bryher, Winifred, 1894-

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Larkin, Philip

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English author Philip Larkin was born in Coventry and educated at Oxford. Within a few years of graduation, he had published two novels and a volume of poetry. His verse was technically accomplished and quite readable; despite a remarkably small output, he became one of the most highly-regarded poets of the 20th century. He was equally popular with critics and his loyal public, successfully producing accessible verse with a uniquely English voice that remained true to classical tradition. Shy an...

Parker, Derek, 1932-

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British author, editor, journalist, and critic. From the description of Collection, 1955-1970. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122385674 Derek Parker, critic, interviewer, author, and editor, was born in Looe, Cornwall, England, in 1932. He attended schools in England until the age of seventeen. Parker describes himself as primarily a journalistic hack with perhaps a flair for interpreting the p...

Aberconway, Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten McLaren, Baroness

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1926-

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MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978

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C. M. (Christopher Murray) Grieve [Hugh McDiarmid, 1892-1978] was a Scottish poet, writer, and cultural activist. Politically, he was both a nationalist, helping found the National Party of Scotland in 1928, and a communist. During the 1930's, he was expelled from each group for his membership in the other. His nationalist leanings were, for a time, characterized by pre-Reformation Catholic Scotland "as a model of social, spiritual, and national coherence." (Roderick Watson, ODNB). Grieve founde...

Sitwell, Sacheve

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Enright, D.J. (Dennis Joseph), 1920-2002

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Clemo, Jack R., 1916-....

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Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000235 Anthony Dymoke Powell, English author best known for his series A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME. Lady Violet Georgiana Powell, writer and chairperson of the Whatley Parish Council. Arthur Mizener, literary critic and biographer of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford. From the description of Powell-Mizener correspondence, 1952-1981. (Co...

Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-

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Pilon, Jean-Guy

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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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Robert (Von Ranke) Graves was born in London in 1895. He attended King's College School and Rokeby School, Wimbledon, Copthorne School, Sussex, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 1907-14. In 1926, he received a B. Litt. From St. John's College, Oxford. He was the author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, historical novels, essays, librettos, criticism, short stories, and children’s books. Graves also translated and edited a number of works. He died in 1985 in Deya, Majorca, Sp...

Knight, George Wilson, 1897-

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G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985) was born at Sutton, Surrey, and educated at Dulwich. He served as a Despatch Rider in Mesopotamia and, after the War, in Persia. Later he became Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. From the guide to the Wilson Knight papers, 1916-1977, (Leeds University Library) ...

Bottrall, Ronald, 1906-

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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Blunden was an English poet and scholar. From the description of Edmund Blunden papers, 1921-1952 (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612727624 Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher. His highly acclaimed biography of Shelley was published in 1946. From the description of Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76945001 From the guide to the Edmund Blunden manuscript ma...

Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993

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Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby was born in 1909 in Quesnel but spent most of her childhood in the Okanagan Valley. In 1925, she enroled at UBC earning a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1931) in History. Ormsby began her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr in 1931, interrupting her studies between 1934 and 1936 to work as a teaching assistant in the Department on History at UBC. After completing her Ph.D. in 1936, she taught in the United States for three years. In 1940, Ormsby became a lecturer in the History Department of Mc...

Sitwell, Georgia

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Finlay, Ian Hamilton

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Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Much of his work on paper was issued through his own Wild Hawthorne Press, which he founded in 1964. From the description of Collection of printed material from Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977-1990. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 301555191 Scottish concrete poet and garden designer, born 1925. From the description of Thonier : watercolor print, nd. (Unknown)...

Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...

Singleton, Geoffrey

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Lindsay, Jack, 1900-

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Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969

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Viola Garvin, literary editor of the Observer 1926-1942, and daughter of James Louis Garvin, editor of the Observer 1908-1942. From the description of Letter, 1940 October 21, Renishaw Hall, N. Sheffield to Viola Garvin. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 37429151 English poet and satirist. From the description of Letter : Cyprus, to Maurice [Baring], 1935 Feb. 15. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). Wor...