Life
[Cecily Isabel Fairfield]; English novelist, dg. of Charles Fairfield
of Anglo-Irish descent, listed as Irish in ‘Anglo-Irish Literature’
section of New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature,
ed. Daiches, (1967). NCBE OCEL.
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Notes
Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature (OUP
1986) notes that she was known for witty defence of extreme individualism
in debate with Herbert Spencer and GB Shaw.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)