On Writing. Critical Studies on Writing as an Art.

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Inscribed on the flyleaf by Stephen Tennant - poet, artist, and Bright Young Thing - who provides a 20pp. Foreword to the book under the title 'The Room Beyond': 'With kindest remembrances - and in special memory of the wonderful visit to Newark- Stephen Tennant'. The recipient was Tennant's aristocratic contemporary Mary Montagu Douglas Scott (ne Lascelles), Duchess of Buccleuch, with her ownership initials (as Mary Buccleuch) beneath, located to Newark & Bowhill in April 1951.A collection of Cather's reflections on her own work and assessments of other authors.