Elizabeth Bibesco
Overview
 
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco (née Asquith; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer active between 1921 and 1940. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Irish novelist and short story writer.-Life:Elizabeth Bowen was born on 7 June 1899 at 15 Herbert Place in Dublin, Ireland and was baptized in the nearby St Stephen's Church on Upper Mount Street...

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Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy was the first child of Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister, 1908-1916) and his second wife, Margot Tennant
Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith , born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit...

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Quotations

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

Poems (1928) Last line of the last poem in this collection, used as her epitaph.

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Haven (1951)

 
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