A Whack of Pies
Matthew Bevis: Dear to Mew, 16 December 2021
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
by Julia Copus.
Faber, 464 pp., £25, April 2021,978 0 571 31353 2 Show More
by Julia Copus.
Faber, 464 pp., £25, April 2021,
Selected Poetry and Prose
by Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus.
Faber, 176 pp., £14.99, October 2019,978 0 571 31618 2 Show More
by Charlotte Mew, edited by Julia Copus.
Faber, 176 pp., £14.99, October 2019,
“... panic & dressing gowns’. There were secrets in the family past, several of which are told in Julia Copus’s new biography. Mew was born in 1869 into a Bloomsbury family that was just about respectable; her father, Fred, was an architect and had married his boss’s eldest daughter, Anna Maria, who apparently felt the union lowered her social ... ”