No Man’s Mistress
Stephen Koss, 5 July 1984
Margot: A Life of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Daphne Bennett.
Gollancz, 442 pp., £12.95, May 1984,0 575 03279 0 Show More
by Daphne Bennett.
Gollancz, 442 pp., £12.95, May 1984,
“... composed four stanzas of decidedly un-Homeric verse, each revolving around her name: ‘Though young and though fair, who can hold such a cargo/Of all the good qualities going as Margot?’ George Curzon, a Soulmate nearer her own age, was moved that same year to proclaim that, however ‘wide you may wander and far go ... you never will beat’ the wit of ... ”