Ethel Mannin and Charles Frederick Higham

After leaving school Ethel Mannin found employment as a typist for the advertising agency, Charles F. Higham Ltd. Soon afterwards, Charles Frederick Higham promoted her to the post of copywriter. She also edited two in-house publications. This included The Pelican, a theatrical newspaper Higham acquired in 1917.

On 28th November, 1919, Mannin married fellow writer John Alexander Porteus (1885–1956), who was the general manager at Highams. Soon after her marriage she gave birth to her only child, Jean. She now turned to novel writing and published Martha in 1923. According to one critic, the novel "elaborately plots the life of the lovechild of an unmarried woman and the price the child has to pay for the sins of the parents." This was followed by the Hunger for the Sea (1924), Sounding Brass (1925) and Pilgrims (1927). The author of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English has argued that "these are socially and politically conscious works, alert to women's oppression".

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Julia Strachey's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf established the Hogarth Press. Over the next few years they published the work of Virginia, Flora Mayor, Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell. In 1932 they published Julia Strachey's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Virginia Woolf's biographer, Hermione Lee, has argued that the novel was "an eccentric and witty story of a single difficult day at a wedding in Dorset, shows us what Virginia Woolf's tastes were in contemporary women's fiction."

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Stephen Tomlin: Dual Personality

Frances Marshall described Stephen Tomlin: "The two sides of his personality were fused together as it were by an excellent brain inherited from his father the judge (Lord Tomlin), shown in his enjoyment of arguments with a distinctly legal flavour.... Tommy (Tomlin) was on the short side, squarely built, with a large head set on a short neck. He had the striking profile of a Roman emperor on a coin, fair straight hair brushed back from a fine forehead, a pale face and grey eyes."

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