Cynthia Asquith

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Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) 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). She married Herbert Asquith in 1910.

In 1913 she met D. H. Lawrence in Margate, and became a friend and correspondent.[1] She took a position as secretary to Peter Pan creator J. M. Barrie,[2][3] with whom she became close friends, continuing to work for him until his death in 1937. Barrie left the bulk of his estate – minus the Peter Pan works – to her.[4] The author L. P. Hartley became a lifelong friend after they met in the early 1920s.

In addition to her literary work, Asquith contributed to the screenplay of the 1937 film Dreaming Lips starring Elisabeth Bergner.[5]

Works

  • The Ghost Book (1927), editor
  • The Duchess of York(1927), biography
  • The Black Cap (1928), editor
  • Shudders (1929), editor
  • When Churchyards Yawn (1931), editor
  • My Grimmest Nightmare (1935), editor
  • The Spring House (1936), novel
  • Dreaming Lips (1937), screenplay
  • One Sparkling Wave (1943), novel
  • This Mortal Coil (1947), stories
  • Haply I May Remember (1950)
  • What Dreams May Come? (1951), stories
  • The Second Ghost Book (1952), editor
  • Portrait of Barrie (1954)
  • The Third Ghost Book (1956), editor
  • Married to Tolstoy (1960), biography
  • Thomas Hardy at Max Gate (1969)

Adaptations

"God Grante That She Lye Stille," collected in When Churchyards Yawn, was adapted in 1961 by Robert Hardy Andrews as an episode of the anthology TV series Thriller.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ See Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922 (Cambridge, 1996), pp.69ff.
  2. ↑ Birkin, Andrew: J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Constable, 1979; revised edition, Yale University Press, 2003
  3. ↑ Telfer, Kevin. "Captain Scott and J M Barrie: an unlikely friendship", Telegraph, 9 March 2012
  4. ↑ Chaney, Lisa. Hide-and-Seek with Angels - A Life of J. M. Barrie, Hutchinson, 2005
  5. ↑ Film Reviews. Sydney Morning Herald [Sydney] 25 October 1937, p.8. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.
  6. ↑ IMDB

Further reading

  • The Diaries of Cynthia Asquith 1915-1918 (1968)
  • Best Friends: Memories of David and Rachel Cecil, Cynthia Asquith, L. P. Hartley and Others (1991) Julian Fane
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 23. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. 

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