Sylvia Lynd

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Sylvia Lynd (nee Dryhurst) (1888 – 21 February 1952 ) was a poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist. She was born in London, her father A. R. Dryhurst being a Dubliner. She was educated at the Slade School of Art, and the Academy of Dramatic Art.

She married in 1909 the journalist and man of letters Robert Lynd. They lived in Hampstead, London for many years.

[edit] Works

• The Thrush and the Jay (1916) Constable essays and poems
• The Chorus (1916) novel
• The Goldfinches (1920) poems
• The Yellow Placard (1931) Gollancz poems
• The Christmas Omnibus (1932) Gollancz (editor)
• The Enemies (1934?) Dent poems
• Selected Poems of Sylvia Lynd (1945) Macmillan
• English Children (?) Britain in Pictures series