Michael Field: Poetry

Legacy

In 1923, saddened at their lack of a memorial, Charles Ricketts designed one for them of black stone, for which John Gray wrote the epitaph ('United in blood, united in Christ'). However, this tombstone at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake cracked irreparably in 1926, the year in which it was installed, and is now lost.[11]

Their extensive diaries are stored in the British Library,[5] and have been digitized and made available by the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium.[12] Carolyn Dever argues that the diaries contain many novelistic qualities—at least up until the time of Whym Chow's death.[13]

A much-edited selection from the journals, which were two dozen annual volumes in ledgers with aspects of scrapbooks combined with a self-conscious literary style of composition, was prepared by T. Sturge Moore, a friend through his mother Marie.


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