Without Knowing Mr. Walkley. Personal Memories

[Edith Olivier]

A memoir from Edith Olivier, touching on her life in Wilton and the people she knew. The book begins with her upbringing and youth at the Wilton Rectory, then her life away from Wilton and her work with the Women's Land Army during World War One, and finally her return to Wilton and the Daye House and her friendship with Rex Whistler. It was during these years that she played hostess to numerous literary and artistic figures, and pen portraits are given for Elinor Wylie, Stephen Tennant, David Cecil, Osbert Sitwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Ottoline Morrell and others. Third impression, printed seven months after the first.



Edith Olivier. Faber and Faber. London. 1938. First edition, third impression. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 320 pages. B&w frontispiece. English. 225 x 140mm. 0.6kg. . Good, in good dust jacket; light ruffling to forecorners and spine ends, discolouratin to spine and fore-edges, price-clipped, small stain at base of spine to jacket and board; spotting and dustiness to page edges, slight lean to spine.