ABSTRACT
Born in Australia, G.W. Stonier (b. 1903) was Raymond Mortimer’s Assistant Literary Editor on the ‘New Statesman and Nation’ from 1928 to 1945. C.H. Rolph recalled
that quiet, elusive and enchantingly inventive writer G.W. Stonier; whose work seemed to some of us like a specially lucid kind of modern verse pushed into conventionally-shaped ‘New Statesman’ paragraphs…. He is one of the older ‘Statesmen’ to whom, in the estimation of most people who know the paper’s history – and certainly in Kingsley’s – much of its early success was due. (‘Kingsley: The Life, Letters and Diaries of Kingsley Martin’, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978, pp. 236–7)
