When the Bough Breaks, and Other Stories.

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the author, in a playfully acerbic manner, on the flyleaf: 'E. Strauss, an oponent [sic] of all my dearest principles - grr! N.M.M.' The recipient was the psychiatrist Eric Strauss. Strauss was among the contributors (of the chapter on 'Psychology') to 'An Outline for Boys and Girls', edited by Mitchison and published by Gollancz in 1932. He would later treat Evelyn Waugh, his fellow-Catholic (perhaps one of the points on which his and Mitchison's principles departed), for the hallucinatory psychosis that inspired 'the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold'.Scarce - her second book, and first collection of stories, set (like much of her early work) in Ancient Rome.