Private Thomas
Andrew Motion, 19 December 1985
Edward Thomas: A Portrait
by R. George Thomas.
Oxford, 331 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 19 818527 8 Show More
by R. George Thomas.
Oxford, 331 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
“... he had fallen in love with Helen, the daughter of his mentor the journalist James Ashcroft Noble. Thomas’s devotion to Helen was fuelled by his wish for independence from his family, and by his hopes of cutting a dash with his contemporaries, but it rapidly brought him responsibilities of a more constricting kind. Although he and Helen campaigned for ... ”