366 · Edward Grieg and the Cigar · Irene Morris · ar
Lilliput [v8 #5, #47, May 1941] (1/-, 96pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) []
From this issue, whilst the proprietor remains Pocket Publications, the Publisher is now Hulton Press. Price now 1/-.
369 · Gulliver’s Diary · Lemuel Gulliver · cl; column written by Macdonald Hastings (1909-1982).
476 · Poetry and the English · Stephen Spender · ar; introduces photo section with photos of Spender, C. Day Lewis, Dyland Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Alun Lewis, Anne Ridler, Laurie Lee, William Empson.
137 · Beginnings: a symposium of extracts from the first works of various authors:
137 · My First Writing · Elinor Glyn · ex
from a diary written in 1889.
138 · The Strange Song · Rebecca West · pm; written when aged 10.
139 · Seanes of Life · Nathaniel Gubbins · iw; all that remains of a novel started but never finished when he was 8 or 9.
141 · Madcap Moll · Noel Coward · ex 1921; from his first published work in 1921.
142 · My First Work · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ar; quotes a poem he wrote at school when 14, and notes his first paid work was a story “Curate and Fiend” in the Leicester Mercury when he was 18.
143 · My Earliest Compositions · James Agate · ar; cites various juvenile scribblings.
144 · My First Poem · Osbert Sitwell · pm The Times 1916
from The Times in March or April 1916.
227 · Or Did I Dream It? · Ronald Jeans · ss; spoof sf story looking back from 1989 to show how a chemist in 1939 saved Britain and the Empire by getting the issuing of forms banned.
243 · The Things They Make Me Write · C. E. M. Joad · ar