'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it is what I know to be genius. And I feel badly that I have only read it in its third impression........I don't think I know a work that contains more wisdom and more terifying and destructive wit. The word "wit" has been debased from meaning Swift to meaning that wretched buffoon Noel Coward. But you have wit as Swift understood it.........I don't think anything is left to be said now either about men's attitude towards women, or about women's inmost thoughts. I have always liked you very much but I think you are a most terrifying young man. How on earth do you know so much! I'm overwhelmed by the scope of the book, and its most apalling insight... Honestly, as exposing the point of view of a man towards an accustomed woman, and of the secret view a woman takes of herself, I don't know anything to touch the fancy dress ball scene....'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell Print: Book
'I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in it. Pollock, let me inform you, is the son of Lady Pollock, whoever she may be; and Collier is the son of Baron (I think they call him) Collier − no, I think it’s Sir Robert: anyway he’s a judge. Ahem.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
