Contents

Introduction

1 Childhood and Youth, 1875–1895

2 Oxford, 1895–1899

3 The Bar, Journalism and South Africa, 1900–1903

4 London, Courtship and Marriage, 1903–1907

5 London and Edinburgh, 1907–1914

6 The Great War, 1914–1918

7 Elsfield, 1919–1927

8 Elsfield and London, 1927–1935

9 Canada, 1935–1937

10 Canada, 1938–1940

Afterword

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

A Note on the Author

Plate Section