H. V. Esmond

At the Bourne End house, KPF and her sister spent idyllic youthful days, canoeing, punting, and bicycling. The Plat also provided KPF with access to an aristocratic network, as many upper-class families attended the...

She got her first chance in Eliza Comes to Stay (by H. V. Esmond ) at the Criterion when the actress due to play the other woman had to drop out because of illness, and...

It was, she said, an adaptation from a play by H. V. Esmond entitled Birds of a Feather, whose chief role was an old Jew, grand, petty, noble, and inglorious, generous and impossibly mean—but...