Otto Kyllmann

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs.Kyllmann

The book evoked a chorus of praise. Walter de la Mare wrote to Otto Kyllmann: She writes about poetry absolutely unknown to me, in a fashion that is in itself poetry.Kyllmann wrote to HW

The book was related to her highly successful lecture series of the same title given at Oxford the previous year, under the auspices of Lady Margaret Hall , and based on research in the Bibliothèque Nationale

MS gave the title The Miss-May-Sinclair to a spoof scientific description, apparently of a very curious little wild animal, perhaps extinct or merely extremely shy and hard to observe. She seems to have written the...

Back in London, she was soon living in Primrose Hill, at first at a small flat in Ormonde Terrace. In summer 1934 came the news that this block was to be sold for development....

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...