Viola Garvin

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.