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...

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.

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...

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...