The Love Child

Edith Olivier (1872-1948) won a scholarship to read history at St Hughes College, Oxford, where she occasionally dined with Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Her friends included the author Sylvia Townsend Warner, writer and publisher David Garnett, and the artist Rex Whistler, who created illustrations for several of her books. The Love Child was Olivier's first novel, published in 1927.