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

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the Editor on the flyleaf, to the author and literary scholar, David Cecil: 'David, from Cynthia, 1934' - note below directs him, 'For 'Julia', do not read Julia Maguire' (i.e., the great granddaughter of Sir Robert Peel).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. There is a family connection between author's presentation of this copy and the work's printed dedication, the latter being 'To the memory of Guendolen Cecil' - i.e., the wife of Algernon Cecil, David Cecil's first cousin, once removed.