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From W. Somerset Maugham to Marie Stopes to Eddie Marsh to Marie Stopes
I know this is such a peculiar title, but nothing can express the conception of this post better. Fellow researchers will understand what I am talking about. You go out to look for something related to your main subject, you find the something and something else which leads you to something something else, and it can go on ad infinitum, not unlike tracing the branching off of a tree. The title is deceptive in its linear development; the tree analogy is much better.Needless to say, W. Somers…
The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature – 1905 Issue
The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature (London: John Baillie, 1905)Some time ago I talked about The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature 1903 issue, edited by W. Somerset Maugham and Laurence Housman, in which Maugham included his first published play, "Marriages Are Made in Heaven," very interesting play indeed.
In the biographies of Maugham, the two issues of The Venture are listed as edited by Maugham and Housman. An ambitious project and though very nicely made, The V…