ABSTRACT
London, 1914, p. 142
This book was the result of the collaboration of Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), later to become a best-selling novelist, and his younger brother and journalist, Eric (b. 1893). The two started planning the book in 1911 and Francis stayed with Bridges in 1913. Jessica Brett Young, the novelist’s widow, relates that the combined initials of the authors ‘gave rise to some misunderstanding’ (Francis Brett Young, 1962, p. 50). In a letter of thanks for his copy Bridges regretted that more had not been said ‘about Hopkins’s influence on his writing’ (ibid., p. 52): See also No. 10.
