Alida Monro

The day before she died, CM gave Alida Monro a cherished copy of her poem Fin de Fête, the one transcribed in the British Library by Thomas Hardy .

CM lived with her sister and mother for most of her life. According to her friend Alida Monro , the siblings treated their mother as if she were a naughty child, sometimes sending her...

CM attended a Poetry Bookshop reading in Bloomsbury at the invitation of Alida Klementaski (later wife of Harold Monro ), who greatly admired her work.

Alida Monro describes CM as very small (under five feet tall) and slight. She always wore a double-breasted tweed jacket with a velvet collar. She smoked hand-rolled cigarettes in a long cigarette holder, and often...

CM 's literary output was scant: she published only about sixty poems, many of them posthumously. According to her friend Alida Monro , she attributed her small output to the difficulties of domestic life...

Critic Joy Grant writes of AW 's relations with her editor, Harold Monro , in a positive light, stressing Wickham's gratitude to Monro for not seeing her poems as symptoms of a disordered mind

CM 's Collected Poems were posthumously published by Duckworth , with a memoir by Alida Monro .

The printing firm usually employed by the Bookshop could not print the volume because one of their compositors, a Methodist, refused to set the poem Madeleine in Church, which he considered to be blasphemous...

Alida Klementaski (later Monro) read the poem and was electrified by it. She immediately committed it to memory, and a couple of years later repeated it to Harold Monro , editor of the newly...

The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913. It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.

CM 's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo . The librarians at Buffalo are said to...