Gladys Storey Letters

Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 17

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf163

Staff Only

Typed letter signed from F.J. Warburg of Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd., publishers, to Storey enclosing a copy of Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow [literary criticism]; verso, autograph draft of Storey's reply, May 22, 1942, 2 pages

Dates

Creation: 1942 May 19

Creator

Storey, Gladys, 1897-1964 (Person)

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Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Gladys Storey (1897- 1964) was a British actress and author. After World War I, Storey abandoned her career as an actress and became a writer. She renewed her relationship with Kate Dickens Perugini, whom Storey’s father had introduced to her in 1910, with the intention of writing a biography of her father, Charles Dickens. Over the next few years Gladys and her mother were regular visitors to Kate's home in Chelsea.

At some point Kate asked Storey to write her biography. She gave her some detailed interviews but stipulated book should not be published until after Henry Fielding Dickens and she had died. Kate spoke openly about her father's relationship with Ellen Ternan. Kate died on May 9, 1929 and Storey published her book, Dickens and Daughter in 1939. Supporters of Charles Dickens attacked the book as being unreliable, especially the passages about Ellen Ternan and the birth of a child. However, George Bernard Shaw wrote to The Times Literary Supplement to say that Kate had told him everything in the book forty years before.

Frederic J. Warburg (1898-1981) was a British publisher.

Source of Acquisition

From the library of Gladys Storey. Originally laid in The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature by Edmund Wilson. PS3545 I6245 W6 1942. Accession number 1444, December 31, 1975