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Christabel, Lady Aberconway - W. Somerset Maugham's Correspondent
This post is about a friend of W. Somerset Maugham, if one can call her that. Christabel, Lady Aberconway exchanged letters with Maugham for a period of over 30 years. A relationship that perhaps waned after the publication of "Looking Back," which left a number of our author's friends and acquaintances indignant. Among the signatures of those who signed a letter to vindicate Syrie Maugham's good name is Christabel Lady Aberconway.Whatever the argument was, whether one sid…
"W. Somerset Maugham" in Seven Friends by Louis Marlow
Marlow, Louis. Seven Friends. London: The Richards Press, 1953.This post is about a most fascinating book by Louis Marlow, whom I know next to nothing, except that he has written a chapter on W. Somerset Maugham.
Louis Marlow's real name is Louis Wilkinson (1881–1966), as observed, died just a year after Maugham; an Englishman who lectured widely in the United States.
A writer himself, he also wrote about other writer friends that he knew.
What is most attractive about Marlow is that…