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Cynthia Asquith

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in England

September 27, 1887

Died

March 31, 1960

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Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer, now known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family.

Her father was Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857 – 1937) and her mother Mary Constance Wyndham (see The Souls). In 1910, she married Herbert Asquith, son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

In 1913 she met D.H. Lawrence in Margate, and became a friend and correspondent. ...more

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	The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Cynthia Asquith, Seth (Illustrator) 3.76 avg rating — 281 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories by Cynthia Asquith, Leonid Andreyev, E.F. Benson 3.83 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Ghost Book by Cynthia Asquith (Editor), Mary Treagold, Elizabeth Bowen 3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1955 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Ghost Book by Cynthia Asquith (Editor), Elizabeth Bowen, V.S. Pritchett 3.20 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1952 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diaries, 1915-1918 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost Book 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1926 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Mortal Coil 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Follower 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Duchess of York 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1928 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I shall leave this farmhouse very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

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“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighborhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

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“Why is Leo set on making me feel guilty?’ she wrote. ‘He seems determined to make me miserable by forcing me to think of nothing but poverty, illness and misery – actually to look at it; and he expects the wretched children to do the same. Is there any need for healthy human beings deliberately to dwell on suffering – to seek it out? Must one keep on going to hospitals to listen to the groans of the dying? If you come across a sick fellow creature, by all means take pity on him, do all you possibly can go help him. But need you search him out?”
― Cynthia Asquith, Married to Tolstoy

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