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Fiction/Verse

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Antic Hay
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Crome Yellow
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Mediterranean Blues
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The Constant Nymph
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The Silent Queen
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Ragged Banners – A Novel with an Index
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Sounding Brass
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Of Human Bondage – A Novel
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The Left Bank and Other Stories
, Jonathan Cape, London 1927
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The Edwardians
, Hogarth Press, London 1930
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I Capture the Castle
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Flamenco
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Vile Bodies
, 1930
Wells, H. G
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Ann Veronica – A Modern Love Story
, T.
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Acknowledgements

I owe gratitude to a large number of people for helping to make this book possible.
My special thanks are due to the following: my husband, William Nicholson, my mother, Anne Olivier Bell, Rupert Christiansen, Caroline Dawnay and Eleo Gordon.
They know why.

A large number of people were kind enough to see me or answer my letters, including the late Lord Annan and Gabriele Annan, the late Dr Igor Anrep and Annabel Anrep, Sybille Bedford, Prosper Devas, Angelica Garnett, Henrietta Garnett, Richard and Jane Garnett, the late David Gascoyne and Judy Gascoyne, Luke Gertler, Victoria Glendinning, Kitty Godley, Chloe Green, Valerie Grove, the late Kathleen Hale, Lord and Lady Healey, Sir Nicholas and Lady Henderson, John and Diana Higgens, Brian Hinton, Michael Holroyd, Lord and Lady Hutchinson, Rebecca John, Francis King, Mrs Peggy Jean Lewis, Nigel Nicolson, Frances Partridge, Lord Skidelsky and Diana Syrat of Penguin Books.

I have had particular support and answers to awkward questions from the following: Juliet Annan, Russell Ash, Paul Beecham, James Beechey, Cressida Bell, Julian Bell, Dr Ronald Blythe, Martin Bryant, Richard Cohen, Caroline Cuthbert, Julie Duffy, Eleanor Gleadow, Jonathan Hugh-Jones, Tom Jeffery, Sarah Jelly, Josephine Jones, Jacqueline Korn, Sarah MacDougall, Mike Majerus, Jonathan and Olivia Mantle, Jamie Muir, Ghislaine Nankivell, Kathy Robbins, Felicity Rubinstein, Ruth Saunders, Richard Shone, Leda Sloat, Frances Spalding, Alastair Upton and Keith Waterhouse.
Thanks too to Judy Goldhill, and Teddy Nicholson.

I am particularly grateful to Jeremy Crow and Elizabeth Haylett of the Society of Authors, and to the staff of the London Library and the British Library whose respective institutions are both national glories.
Thanks are also due to Jo Digger, curator of the New Art Gallery, Walsall, Kath Begley of the Bank of England Library, Jennifer Booth and Adrian Glew at the Tate Gallery Archive, Mary Enright at the Poetry Library, Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan at the National Library of Wales, Hester Swift at the Law Society Library, Anne Walker at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Library, Ella Wilkinson at the Royal Hibernian Academy Library, and the helpful staff of Lewes Public Library.

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