Miss McAllister, 18 Warwick Rd, SW5, to Spielmann

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 55 of 251 in this group

Reference code

SP/8/53

Title

Miss McAllister, 18 Warwick Rd, SW5, to Spielmann

Date

31 Jan 1930

Level

Item

Extent & medium

3 pieces

Content Description

Concerining her search for suitable editors. Terrible servants left her doing all the work at home, the risk was that she would lose her tenants. Things have now improved and she is ready to write. She talks of her experience writing for the Lady's Pictorial for Mark Perugini. She has refused to indulge in the "childish" literary pretntions of the Writers and Lyceum Clubs. Expounds her theory concerning the relationship between humans and animals, the cannibals her brother had to deal with in Africa and the injustice that humans should eat and benefit from animal products.