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WELLESLEY, Dorothy (1885-1956). Poems of Ten Years 1924-1934. London: Macmillan, 1934. 8°. Frontispiece portrait by Rex Whistler. Original faun buckram (darkened at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To lady Ottoline Morrell from Dorothy Wellesley June 1935.' Occasional pencilled marks by Morrell on contents page and in text; with another presentation copy from Dorothy Wellesley to Ottoline Morrell.
TURNER, W. J. Marigold, An Idyll of the Sea. London: The Fleuron, 1926. 4°. Printed at the Curwen Press. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket (damp-stained, dust-jacket torn). ONE OF 350 NUMBERED COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline from W.T.'
Dorothy Wellesley's Poems of Ten Years was favourably reviewed in The Observer by Vita Sackville-West, after which Ottoline Morrell introduced the author to Yeats: 'Yeats, aged seventy, was collecting materials for his Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Out of touch with modern trends, he asked her advice on whom to consider. He included seventeen and a half pages of Dottie's own poetry' (Victoria Glendinning, Vita, p.278). On its publication in 1936, Yeats's anthology was widely decried and it caused Morrell particular anguish because of its endorsement of W. J. Turner who had caricatured her as Lady Virginia Caraway in his novel, The Aesthetes. (3)
TURNER, W. J. Marigold, An Idyll of the Sea. London: The Fleuron, 1926. 4°. Printed at the Curwen Press. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket (damp-stained, dust-jacket torn). ONE OF 350 NUMBERED COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline from W.T.'
Dorothy Wellesley's Poems of Ten Years was favourably reviewed in The Observer by Vita Sackville-West, after which Ottoline Morrell introduced the author to Yeats: 'Yeats, aged seventy, was collecting materials for his Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Out of touch with modern trends, he asked her advice on whom to consider. He included seventeen and a half pages of Dottie's own poetry' (Victoria Glendinning, Vita, p.278). On its publication in 1936, Yeats's anthology was widely decried and it caused Morrell particular anguish because of its endorsement of W. J. Turner who had caricatured her as Lady Virginia Caraway in his novel, The Aesthetes. (3)
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