Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960)
Auteur de The Third Ghost Book
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Œuvres de Cynthia Asquith
The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny (1926) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120 authors and 1000 stories in one volume (2018) 20 exemplaires
The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery (1928) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Sails of Gold 4 exemplaires
The Family Life Of Queen Elizabeth 4 exemplaires
My Grimmest Nightmare 3 exemplaires
H.R.H. The Duchess of York 2 exemplaires
Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80 stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good… 2 exemplaires
Flying Carpet 2 exemplaires
I wish I were you, four stories 2 exemplaires
The Spring House 1 exemplaire
'God gheevet dat sy stille leyt' 1 exemplaire
The Playfellow [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
The King's Daughters 1 exemplaire
The spring house 1 exemplaire
Cans and Can'ts 1 exemplaire
One Sparkling Wave 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
[ASSASSIN'S CLOAK] by (Author)Taylor, Irene on Nov-11-03 (2000) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 550 exemplaires
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven't I Read This Before? (2005) — Contributeur; Contributeur, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
Tchnienie Grozy — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Asquith, Cynthia
- Nom légal
- Asquith, Cynthia Mary Evelyn
- Autres noms
- Charteris, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn (birth name)
Ray, C.L. (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1887
- Date de décès
- 1960-03-31
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Groot-Brittannië
- Lieu de naissance
- Wiltshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Professions
- novelist
biographer
anthologist
diarist - Relations
- Asquith, H. H. (father-in-law)
Bonham Carter, Violet (sister-in-law)
Wyndham, George (uncle)
Glenconner, Pamela (aunt)
Wyndham, Francis (cousin)
Charteris, Evan Edward (uncle) (tout afficher 11)
Charteris, Hugo (nephew)
Countess of Wemyss, Mary Constance (mother)
Herbert Asquith (husband)
Lawrence, D. H. (friend)
Hartley, L. P. (friend)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 41
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 412
- Popularité
- #59,116
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1
Lady Cynthia Asquith was the eldest daughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857-1937) and his wife Mary Wyndham – sister of Chief Secretary for Ireland George Wyndham.
The Charteris family was Scottish, but their primary residence was the lovely Tudor era mansion of Stanway, in Gloucestershire. It was in the Cotswolds, where it had originally been the Abbot’s residence in a one of the monasteries “dissolved” and re-allocated by King Henry VIII. (Later, Stanway was leased to family friend and “Peter Pan” author J.M. Barrie, for whom Lady Cynthia served as secretary for many years.
Her mother, Mary, Lady Wemyss (1862-1937) was one of the leading members of the social group “The Souls”. She was a warm hostess, and was particularly close to future Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, with whom she corresponded frequently. Although the Wemyss family had multiple houses, and animals, and lived in an aristocratic manner, Lady Cynthia remembers that there was a constant concern for finances, and much discussion about the need for “retrenchment.” For example, all of the family, except for Lord Wemyss, travelled third class on trains. He had lost money on the stock exchange as a young man, and never really recovered financially.
Lady Cynthia was frequently the “sitter” for a number of prominent portrait artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She recollects memories of her encounters with a number of these “greats”: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and Augustus John (1878-1961). As a girl, she also met G.F. Watts (1817-1904), though she never sat for him. Later, she and her husband were good friends of painter and designer Rex Whistler (1905-1944); they spent a magical evening with Whistler shortly before his death in World War II.
Two of Lady Cynthia's brothers were killed in World War I, as was a brother-in-law, Raymond Asquith. She also bore sad memories of a very dear brother who died of scarlet fever at the age of 4. But Lady Cynthia doesn't dwell on the pain of family loss: the emphasis here is on childhood, and the tone certainly merits the adjective "haply".… (plus d'informations)