Charles Cannan

MC called her third poetry volume The House of Hope, Poems; it appeared with woodcuts by Phyllis Gardner , dedicated to the poet's father , who had died several years before.

Instead, MC and her sisters went to work as volunteers at Oxford University Press , working for their father in the place of men who had enlisted in the army. The production of OUP's general...

One of MC 's three best friends was almost certainly Bevil Quiller-Couch , son of her father's ex-pupil and close friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch . The father, called Q, was a leader in the...

Charles Cannan of Oxford University Press , father of the writers May and JC , died.

Her father, Charles Cannan , was an academic whose subject was classics. Having been a Fellow for twelve years before Joanna was born, he also became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford , and in 1898...

Her father, Charles Cannan , was a classical scholar who became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford , and Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press . He died on 15 December 1919.

Her father first cast an eye over what she proposed to publish, then at the last moment decided to accompany her to see the publisher, Basil Blackwell , apparently wanting to make sure that...

MC wrote, It mattered to me . . . what Q thought of my poems more than anyone except my father .Rouen, April 26 - May 25, 1915 became MC 's best-known work...

She accepted because I knew well enough that the only antidote to pain is work and I loved the Press. This job was a return to the familiar: her old desk, her old colleagues...