Hope Mirrlees
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Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for 1926's Lud-in-the-Mist, a novel generally regarded as one of the most influential (though very much obscure) works in fantasy literature.
She was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in her diaries as "a very self conscious, wilful, prickly and perverse young woman, rather conspicuously well dressed and pretty, with a view of her own about books and style, an aristocratic and conservative tendency in opinion and a corresponding taste for the beautiful and elaborate in literature." Her circle of celebrity acquaintances also included T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Bertrand Russell and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She lived for many years with Jane Harrison.
External links
- The Lady Who Wrote Lud-in-the-Mist (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/introduces/mirrlees.htm), by Michael Swanwick