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'Poets' Shop', published in 'The Daily Mail', October 20 1920 (printed paper)

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XJF441214
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'Poets' Shop', published in 'The Daily Mail', October 20 1920 (printed paper)
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English School, (20th century) / English
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printed paper
Date
1920 AD (C20th AD)
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Article which tells of a shop in Boar's Hill, just outside of Oxford, that was set up for the benefit of various literary figures and scientists who lived there; The shop is said to have been opened by Mrs Michael Howard and Nancy Nicholson (1899-1977), daughter of the painter Sir William Nicholson, brother of the artist Ben Nicholson and wife of the poet Robert Graves; It is said that serving in the shop were to be found Robert Bridges (1844-1930) the poet laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967) poet laureate after Bridges, the writer John Galsworthy (1867-1933) and the public intellectual Gilbert Murray (1866-1957); The shop collapsed after six months resulting in heavy debts;

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shop / poet / daily mail / grocery store / spells behind the counter / john masefield / business venture / robert bridges / newspaper article / gilbert murray / poets' shop / nancy nicholson / boar's hill
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