Lady Margaret Sackville
Joy Grant, in her biography of Harold Monro, writes that Sackville "spoke well and to the point at the inauguration, hoping that the Society would 'never become facile and "popular", to turn to a merely trivial gathering of persons amiably interested in the same ideal'.[4] Her half-expressed fears were unfortunately fulfilled: the direction in which the Society was heading soon became obvious—poetry was made an excuse for pleasant social exchanges, for irrelevant snobbery, for the disagreeable consequences of organised association.[2] Brian Murdoch notes the absence of overt patriotic elements in The Pageant of War and its memorialisation of all the dead: soldiers, non-combatants and refugees.[9] She spent much of her adult life in Midlothian and Edinburgh, where she became the first president of Scottish PEN and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[10] She was a member of Marc-André Raffalovich's Whitehouse Terrace salon, where she would meet guests including Henry James, Compton Mackenzie and the artist Hubert Wellington.
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