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4 unusual facts about London Mercury


Eileen Shanahan

Her poetry was highly regarded by Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), who helped her to gain publication of The Three Children and Shankill in The London Mercury.

London Mercury

J.C. Squire served as editor from November 1919 to September 1934; Rolfe Arnold Scott-James succeeded Squire as editor from October 1934 to April 1939.

Mabel Alleyne

Her wood engravings were reproduced in the London Mercury; the September 1933 issue reproduced Night, and the July 1934 issue Flower Study.

Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

In 1934, Scott-James took over the editorship of the influential magazine, the London Mercury from J. C. Squire, in which he published many canonically recognized authors of modernism.


Edward Shanks

He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919-22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926).


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