Hope Mirrlees

About the Author

Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978) was a British modernist and member of the famed Bloomsbury Group. Described by Virginia Woolf as “capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed,” Mirrlees was friends with T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein, and was the partner of well-regarded classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. Mirrlees published only three novels in her lifetime, the most famous of which is the increasingly influential Lud-in-the-Mist.