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Cynthia Asquith


Born
in England
September 27, 1887

Died
March 31, 1960

Genre
Biography


Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer, now known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family.

Her father was Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857 – 1937) and her mother Mary Constance Wyndham (see The Souls). In 1910, she married Herbert Asquith, son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

In 1913 she met D.H. Lawrence in Margate, and became a friend and correspondent. ...more

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The Third Ghost Book
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The Second Ghost Book
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Diaries, 1915-1918
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The Ghost Book
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This Mortal Coil
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The Follower
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The Duchess of York
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“I shall leave this farmhouse very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories
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“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighborhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories
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“Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific or a sham and a swindle.”
― Lady Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories
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