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Michael Walmer has set about publishing a list where the main ingredient is quality. Authors will be sourced from all over the world, with a love of erudition, be it elegant or rough-edged, simple or complex, poetic or blunt, or all of these!, as the enlivening and guiding principle.
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Gerald Bullett
GERALD BULLETT was born in London in 1893, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. His first book, a volume of poetry, was published in 1915. Thereafter came a steady flow of novels, literary criticism, more poetry, children’s books, essays and short stories. Some of his fiction was supernatural or fantastic in theme. He served in the First World War, and became a broadcaster for the BBC in the Second, a complementary career which continued after it. He died in 1958 at the age of 64.
Radclyffe Hall
MARGUERITE RADCLYFFE HALL was born in Bournemouth in 1880. After a difficult family life in childhood she used an inheritance to gain more autonomy. She published five books of poetry between 1906 and 1915. Her first two novels were published in 1924, and were followed by five more, including the groundbreaking lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. A volume of shorter fictions was published in 1934. After an early relationship with Mabel Batten, Hall settled in London with Una Troubridge in 1917 and remained with her for the remainder of her life. She died in 1943 at the age of 63.
Grazia Deledda
GRAZIA DELEDDA was born at Nuoro in Sardinia in 1871. Though her middle class family were not especially supportive of her desire to write, she determinedly pursued her vocation. Her first book, a collection of short stories, was published in 1890. Success developed slowly; she reached greater popularity in 1903 and 1904 with Elias Portolu and Cenere (the film of which contained Eleonora Duse’s only cinematic role). She was the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1926. She died of breast cancer in Rome in 1936, at the age of 64.