André Maurois

Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine) , André Gide , Dorothy and Ezra Pound , and Gertrude Stein . With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud

The Conversations established Marguerite Blessington's literary popularity, and has remained the work for which she is remembered. It has been praised by modern writers on Byron, among them Harold Nicolson , André Maurois , Iris Origo

Her venues for exhibiting included the Zwemmer Gallery and Adams Galleries in London in 1949 and the Musée Cernuschi in Paris in 1953. In his introduction to the Cernuschi catalogue, author André Maurois reflects on...

LS authored catalogues of exhibitions of her paintings, including those held at the Musée Cernuschi (with an introduction by André Maurois ) and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1983.

EDA 's last book was her translation into English of Ariel, the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by André Maurois , published, like her other books, by John Lane .

EDA then turned her attention to biography, in connection with her deep and informed interest in modern French writing. She found, however, that her first choice of subject, the French poet Rimbaud , was too...