Viola Garvin
Journalist, Author
1898 – 1969
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Who was Viola Garvin?
Viola Gerard Garvin was an English poet and editor at the London Observer. Some of her works include Dedication and The House of Cæsar.
Robert E Howard paraphrased a part from Viola Garvin's The House of Cæsar for his suicide note.
A classmate of Garvin's at Somerville College, Oxford, was Constance Savery, whose work diary contains the entry "Feb. 2nd-4th 1969, Viola Garvin died on Jan. {blank] 1969." Savery's diary is in the manuscript collection at the Knight Library, University of Oregon.
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- Born
- 1898
- Parents
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Died
- 1969
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on July 23, 2013
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