CANNAN, May Wedderburn.

£675 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The House of Hope. Poems. First edition of her third volume of poetry, the work which inspired a letter from an admirer, Percival Slater, who became Cannan's husband. Cannan is best known as a wartime poet who worked as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in Rouen and for MI5 in Paris during the First World War.

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