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  1. Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris; 27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels, edited a number of anthologies, wrote for children and covered the British Royal family.

  2. Nov 1, 2016 · Cynthia Asquith was a versatile and influential writer of ghost stories, who also edited anthologies featuring other masters of the genre. She excelled at evoking the terrifying "long littleness of life" and the horrors of the past in her fiction.

  3. British author best known for her diary of the First World War years, which was published posthumously. Born Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris in Wiltshire, England, in 1887; died in 1960; daughter and one of seven children of Hugo (Lord Elcho, 11th earl of Wemyss) and Mary (Wyndham) Charteris; married Herbert Asquith (second son of Prime Minister ...

  4. Feb 27, 2024 · The old disgrace of a divorce is no longer felt—one hopes—today. But Lady Cynthia Asquith ’s distress over the future of her son John, who might today have been diagnosed as autistic, might...

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  5. Jan 25, 2013 · Lady Cynthia Asquith (1881-1960) was the daughter of the 11th Earl of Wemyss and the daughter-in-law of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. In her memoirs, Remember and Be Glad (1952), she reflects upon her life as an aristocratic girl in Edwardian society.

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  7. Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris; 27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels, edited a number of anthologies, wrote for children and covered the British Royal family.

  8. A profile of the literary aristocrat and ghost story writer, who was the daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and a friend of D H Lawrence and J M Barrie. Learn about her novels, anthologies and non-fiction on the royal family.

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