I lived from 1893-1970. I was from England, and am in the English category.
A 1st World War poet and sister of the novelist Joanna Cannan. She is the daughter of the academic Charles Cannan and cousins of the British novelist and playwright Gilbert Cannan. She is also related to the famous Pullein-Thompson sisters being an aunt, and a great aunt of Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (Josephine Pullein-Thompson's daughter).
She was engaged to Bevil Quiller-Couch, son of the well known Cornish writer and professor of English at Cambridge, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Bevil, a gunner the 1st World War, survived without injury only to die in the Spanish flu pandemic. She subsequently married Percival James Slater,a baloonist in the 1st World War, and promoted to Brigadier in the 2nd World War. Although May ceased writing for publication in the 1920s, in her final years she completed an autobiographical work entitled "Grey Ghosts and Voices"(1976). The book looks back to her Edwardian childhood, the war years and those years immediately afterwards
She was engaged to Bevil Quiller-Couch, son of the well known Cornish writer and professor of English at Cambridge, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Bevil, a gunner the 1st World War, survived without injury only to die in the Spanish flu pandemic. She subsequently married Percival James Slater,a baloonist in the 1st World War, and promoted to Brigadier in the 2nd World War. Although May ceased writing for publication in the 1920s, in her final years she completed an autobiographical work entitled "Grey Ghosts and Voices"(1976). The book looks back to her Edwardian childhood, the war years and those years immediately afterwards
My poetry
- Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,
And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,63 lines, 1 comment - Since they have died to give us gentleness,
And hearts kind with contentment and quiet mirth,8 lines
