Portrait of Barrie

by Cynthia Asquith

First edition. A few marks in red ink with notes in red ink on the back endpaper. ix, 230 pages. cloth-backed boards.. 8vo..

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

230 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer, now known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family.

Her father was Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857 – 1937) and her mother Mary Constance Wyndham (see The Souls). In 1910, she married Herbert Asquith, son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

In 1913 she met D.H. Lawrence in Margate, and became a friend and correspondent.

Reviews

[Lise]

A great biography about Sir J. M. Barrie

[Lindsey]

Unfortunately I lost the library's copy (a first!) and cannot finish this book - but I greatly enjoyed it.