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unusual facts about Walter de la Mare



Alice Boughton

A collection of her portraits, Photographing the Famous, was published in 1928, and included such luminaries as William Butler Yeats, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, Maxim Gorky, John Burroughs, Ruth St. Denis, Eleonora Duse and Yvette Guilbert.

Friends of the British Library

The archive itself dates from between 1940 to Peake's death in 1968 and includes unpublished material such as correspondence with writers Laurie Lee, Walter de la Mare and CS Lewis.

Hugh Walpole bibliography

In 1937 he edited a compilation of short stories, A Second Century of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1937), by a range of writers including Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, Walpole himself ("Tarnhelm") and twenty-two others.

Nugent Barker

Douglas A. Anderson noted in a Foreword to a later edition of Written With My Left Hand that Barker ranks alongside fellow twentieth-century exponents of the strange story, Walter de la Mare and John Metcalfe.

Patrick John Morris

For the songs he set poems to music and sang them, verses by A. E. Housman, W. E. Henley, Walter de la Mare and other well-known poets, and particularly the Australian-born poet Vicki Raymond.

Project Gutenberg Canada

Some authors whose complete works can now be made available (in Canada) are A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Amy Carmichael, Gertrude Lawrence, Marshall Broomhall, Lilias Trotter, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Isobel Kuhn.


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