During her time at St Moritz, PB
met Hope de Lisle Brock
, a fellow convalescent whose friendship altered . . . the whole structure of [their] lives.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Phyllis Bottome
Lislie, as her friends and family called her, was PB
's closest friend in her young adult life. She gave PB advice on her novels, which Phyllis readily accepted.
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The two young women...
Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
PB
and her friend Lislie (Hope de Lisle Brock
) were thrilled at meeting Alice Meynell
, whose poetry they felt expressed the deepest feelings of [their] hearts.
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Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
When PB
and Lislie
spent the winter in Rome, Ezra Pound
introduced Bottome to H. D.
.
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Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
Pound encouraged her to leave her mother and to live on and for [her] work, but PB
did not take this opportunity to live among the youngest and keenest minds of [her] day.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
