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- Author: Cynthia Asquith
Author Record # 14887
- Legal Name: Asquith, Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris
- Birthplace: Clouds, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Birthdate: 27 September 1887
- Deathdate: 31 March 1960
- Language: English
- Webpages: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Library of Congress, orlando.cambridge.org, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names:
Lady Cynthia Asquith, Lady Asquith, C. L. Ray
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Note:
Private secretary to J. M. Barrie, 1918 to 1937
"CA's major contribution to Supernatural Fiction was as an anthologist. ... The books [5 probably] established a standard for ghost-story Anthologies that few have bettered. CA applied the same exacting standards to her anthologies for children, which contain many magical fantasies."
-- Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Mike Ashley)
- Author Tags:
horror (6), fantasy (4), ghosts (4), My Grimmest Nightmare (1), vampires (1), epistolary (1), first person point of view (1), antique shop (1), redemption (1), posthumous letter (1), contemporary (1), england (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1)
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