She took her title from a line in Tennyson
's Break, break, break, a poem which powerfully conveys a sense of desolation and despair. She dedicated her novel to Mrs Lupton
, her former...
Friends, Associates
Mary Linskill
ML
remained throughout her life a close if not always harmonious friend of Jenny Miles
(sister of the rector of Bingham), from the time that she worked in that area (possibly for the Miles family)...