Daybreak.

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed on the title-page: 'Maga, from her Mappie, Aug. 1922'; the latter may be 'Mappie' (Emily Lina) Mirrlees, mother of poet and novelist Hope Mirrlees (whose 'Paris' was printed by the Woolfs), though it is difficult to corroborate this.One of 250 copies printed. The author was the wife of economist Gerald Shove, and linked to the Bloomsbury Group via that and other connections. Born Fredegond Maitland, she was the daughter of F.W. Maitland and Florence Fisher; the latter, following Maitland's death, married Sir Francis Darwin. On her mother's side she was a second cousin to Virginia Woolf (this work's publisher), and the niece of Vaughan Williams (who set her poetry to music).