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The Tears of War
The Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
by
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN and BEVIL BRIAN QUILLER-COUCH
Paperback
(Nov 02) - RRP £9.99. Your price £7.99.
Published on 1st July 2000 to coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of
the Somme, 'The Tears of War' is the passionate and true love story of First
World War poet May Wedderburn Cannan and an artillery officer Bevil Quiller-Couch. |
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Wedderburn Cannan wrote three volumes of poetry which were published by Blackwell during
and after the war. |
Charles Canaan | May was the daughter of Charles Cannan, Dean of Trinity College, Oxford and Secretary of the Delegates to the Oxford University Press. He was also in charge at OUP from 1895 until his death in 1919. |
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Bevil Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
| Bevil Quiller-Couch, son of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (known as Q) was at Trinity College, Oxford before joining up as a special reservist and fought as an artillery officer throughout the war continuously from 1914 to 1918. |
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Bevil's grave in Duren
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the Armistice Bevil found May in Paris and asked her to marry him. They
had barely three weeks together before Bevil marched his Battery into
Germany and died there in the great flu epidemic of 1919, just two weeks
before he was due to be demobilised. |
Bevil's final resting place in Cologne's Southern Cemetery
| The book tells their story through May's poems,
extracts from her autobiography (originally published in 1976) and through
Bevil's letters. An extraordinary personal memoir which gives fascinating
glimpses into life for a young woman at the hub of literary society in
Oxford during the war and of a young man and his experience of war and
love. |
| Part biography, party
poetry, part history, this is a unique telling of their story.
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