Hope Mirrlees
Hope Mirrlees | |
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Hope Mirrlees in 1931 | |
| Born | Helen Hope Mirrlees 8 April 1887 Chislehurst, Kent |
| Died | 1 August 1978 (aged 91) Thames Bank, Goring, Oxfordshire |
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| Literary movement | Literary modernism |
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(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, an influential fantasy novel, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."