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The first president of the Female Writers’ Club and employed by Oxford University Press, she published poems, novels, and memoirs. The Lonely Generation (1934) is autobiographical, and Grey Ghosts and Voices (1976) consists of thinly disguised personal reminiscences. Her aspiration to train as an actress were thwarted by the First World War in which her fiancé, Bevil Quiller-Couch, was killed. The first-person pronoun which dominates the slim volume In War Time (1917) is sometimes personal but often ungendered and universalizing. She published two other poetry collections, The Splendid Days (1919) and The House of Hope (1923).
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Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E., Sponenberg, A. (2006). C. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E., Sponenberg, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379473_3
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