She Walks in Beauty. Descriptions of feminine beauty in English prose and poetry.

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Inscribed by the Editor on the flyleaf: 'Eddie, with love from Cynthia, 1934'; the recipient was Sir Edward Marsh, translator and literary editor as well as patron of the arts and civil servant (most notably as Churchill's secretary). A laid-in ALs from Asquith to the same, on her headed paper and dated Oct 26th 1934, presents the book 'with so much thanks for your invaluable help', whilst a note at the foot remarks her shift 'to the less congenial task of a synopsis of the King's reign! "He walks in What?"'Marsh's corrections restore a line missing from a passage of Pope's verse, but otherwise notes a few small typographical errors. The help he offered was probably as Rupert Brooke's literary executor.The anthology includes work by two of Asquith's most notable literary friends J.M. Barrie, to whom she was secretary, and D.H. Lawrence, to whom Marsh introduced her.