Three Daughters.

Bookseller Notes

Her first novel. The author's obituary in The Guardian observed a 'homesickness for the nineteenth-century', and it is there that the present work begins, following the three daughters of Lady Pomfret from the late-Victorian era through to the 1920s.Heseltine was the daughter of Sir Courtenay Ilbert and the great-niece on her mother's side to F.H. and A.C. Bradley; she married Michael Heseltine in 1912 but the marriage was annulled in 1921 - an episode recorded by Virginia Woolf in her diaries. Heseltine and Woolf were related indirectly by her sister Lettice's marriage to Woolf's cousin H.A.L. Fisher. Woolf's letters to Heseltine are friendly and admiring of her writing ('I wish I could get you to write a book [for the Hogarth Press]'), whilst Heseltine - whose writing career was in the main as a critic - wrote notable reviews of Woolf's 'The Common Reader' (a 'marriage of true minds consummated between a wood nymph and a don', in the Daily News) and 'To the Lighthouse' ('Mrs Woolf is unlike any other writer [...]; her genius is beyond dispute', in Time and Tide).