IRVINE, Lyn Lloyd. Ten Letter-Writers
IRVINE, Lyn Lloyd. Ten Letter-Writers. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket.Very good, the cloth a trifle discoloured at spine head, the binding tight and square. A few spots to textblock edges and faint marks to endpapers only. The dust jacket priced 8s 6d net to spine, chip to spine head, smaller nicks to other edges with a couple of closed tears. A sharp copy.
A consideration of various noted letter-writers both French and British, a ‘discussion of self-expression and character through three centuries, dealing with such matters as feminine talent, the changes in sense of humour, and the contrast between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth’. Irvine moved from Scotland to Cambridge and then London in the late-twenties and began publishing poetry, some of which through Leonard Woolf. This, her first published book, was chanced upon by Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the wider Bloomsbury suit opened up to Irvine. She wrote and published herself the short-lived magazine, The Monologue, and all of the big names of the group were subscribers; Vita Sackville West, Maynard Keynes, Clive and Julian Bell, as well as Graham Greene, all of which corresponded with Irvine. The journal was curtailed by Irvine’s marriage to the noted mathematician, Max Newman. Newman worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and was a close associate of Alan Turing. Scarce in the dust jacket.
IRVINE, Lyn Lloyd. Ten Letter-Writers. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket.Very good, the cloth a trifle discoloured at spine head, the binding tight and square. A few spots to textblock edges and faint marks to endpapers only. The dust jacket priced 8s 6d net to spine, chip to spine head, smaller nicks to other edges with a couple of closed tears. A sharp copy.
A consideration of various noted letter-writers both French and British, a ‘discussion of self-expression and character through three centuries, dealing with such matters as feminine talent, the changes in sense of humour, and the contrast between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth’. Irvine moved from Scotland to Cambridge and then London in the late-twenties and began publishing poetry, some of which through Leonard Woolf. This, her first published book, was chanced upon by Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the wider Bloomsbury suit opened up to Irvine. She wrote and published herself the short-lived magazine, The Monologue, and all of the big names of the group were subscribers; Vita Sackville West, Maynard Keynes, Clive and Julian Bell, as well as Graham Greene, all of which corresponded with Irvine. The journal was curtailed by Irvine’s marriage to the noted mathematician, Max Newman. Newman worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and was a close associate of Alan Turing. Scarce in the dust jacket.
IRVINE, Lyn Lloyd. Ten Letter-Writers. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket.Very good, the cloth a trifle discoloured at spine head, the binding tight and square. A few spots to textblock edges and faint marks to endpapers only. The dust jacket priced 8s 6d net to spine, chip to spine head, smaller nicks to other edges with a couple of closed tears. A sharp copy.
A consideration of various noted letter-writers both French and British, a ‘discussion of self-expression and character through three centuries, dealing with such matters as feminine talent, the changes in sense of humour, and the contrast between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth’. Irvine moved from Scotland to Cambridge and then London in the late-twenties and began publishing poetry, some of which through Leonard Woolf. This, her first published book, was chanced upon by Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the wider Bloomsbury suit opened up to Irvine. She wrote and published herself the short-lived magazine, The Monologue, and all of the big names of the group were subscribers; Vita Sackville West, Maynard Keynes, Clive and Julian Bell, as well as Graham Greene, all of which corresponded with Irvine. The journal was curtailed by Irvine’s marriage to the noted mathematician, Max Newman. Newman worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and was a close associate of Alan Turing. Scarce in the dust jacket.