Peerie Breeks
Robert Crawford: Willa and Edwin Muir, 21 September 2023
Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage
by Margery Palmer McCulloch.
Oxford, 350 pp., £100, March,978 0 19 285804 7 Show More
by Margery Palmer McCulloch.
Oxford, 350 pp., £100, March,
The Usurpers
by Willa Muir, edited by Anthony Hirst and Jim Potts.
Colenso, 290 pp., £15, March,978 1 912788 27 9 Show More
by Willa Muir, edited by Anthony Hirst and Jim Potts.
Colenso, 290 pp., £15, March,
“... dumped her philandering rugby-player fiancé, Cecil, and flung her diamond and sapphire engagement ring into the sea off St Andrews pier. Willa died, back in Scotland, in 1970. Margery Palmer McCulloch, who wrote this perceptive and sympathetic account in her own old age, did not live to see it ... ”