Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley

'this outstanding biography provides expert scholarship as well as a thoroughly engrossing story.' Victorian Studies 'Oulton has painstakingly reconstructed Cholmondeley's life and a literary career which spanned four decades and encompassed seven novels, short fiction, drama and a family memoir.' Women: A Cultural Review 'Let the Flowers Go is an important and engaging study of a marginalised writer, and a very welcome addition to the growing body of work on lesser-known women authors.' The Latchkey

• prologue Prologue; Chapter 1 ‘Water Tinted with Gold’; Chapter 2 ‘One Great Hope’; Chapter 3 ‘If I Found I had no Power at all’: The Early Fiction; Chapter 4 ‘The only life I Know’: Sir Charles Danvers, Diana Tempest and A Devotee; Chapter 5 ‘Strumming on two Pianos at Once’: London and the Writing of Red Pottage; Chapter 6 ‘Not Mine to Keep’: Moth and Rust (1902) and Prisoners (1906); Chapter 7 ‘Windows Wide Open, Yet Discreetly Veiled’: Notwithstanding (1913); Chapter 8 War; Chapter 9 ‘I Dont Think I was Ever Brave’: The Romance of his Life (1921) and the Longing for Rest;