Phyllis Bentley – A Woman of Strong Passions
JULIA HICKEY explores the life and writing of the novelist and short story writer, Phyllis Bentley: ‘Once upon a time, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a bespectacled child dreamed of becoming a writer. The child was the offspring of middle-class parents. He was a master dyer. She was the daughter of a mill owner who finished cloth.’