Margaret Stevenson Miller was born in 1896 and was not only a scholar, but also one of the pioneers for the fight against legislation preventing married women from retaining their jobs. Miller attended Edinburgh University, where she received her Masters degree and Bachelor’s of commerce.

John Rodker was born in Manchester on 18^th December 1894. The son of Jewish immigrants originating from Poland, his family moved from Manchester to London when he was six years old.

Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H.

Victoria [Vita] Mary Sackville-West, poet, novelist, and horticultural journalist, was born on 9^th March 1892 at Knole, near Sevenoaks, and died on 2^nd June 1962 at Sissinghurst.

Charles Harold Curtis Prentice was an influential British publisher who worked for Chatto & Windus from 1914-1935, where he replaced Percy Spalding as a senior

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Katherine Mansfield (originally Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) was born into a well-to-do family in Wellington, New Zealand on 14 October 1888, the third of five children.

Hope (Helen) Mirrlees, poet, novelist, biographer and translator, was born April 8, 1887, at Erpingham near Chislehurst, Kent, the eldest child of William Julius Mirrlees and Emily Mirrlees (née Moncrieff).

Ruth Manning-Sanders (née Ruth Vernon Manning), writer, was born on 21^st August 1886 in Swansea and died on 12^th October 1988 in Penzance. She was the third and youngest daughter of John Edmondson Manning, a Unitarian minister, and Emma Manning (neé Browne Brock).