ABSTRACT
20 February 1920, 239
Murry (1889–1957), critic, biographer, novelist and editor, worked for the ‘Westminster Gazette’, ‘Nation’ and the ‘Times Literary Supplement’. He married Katherine Mansfield in 1913. During ‘the brief and brilliant life’ (Eliot's words) of the ‘Athenaeum’ under his editorship he published important early essays by Eliot, who acknowledged his debt to Murry in the Preface to the 1928 edition of ‘The Sacred Wood’. Eliot also contributed a foreword to ‘Katherine Mansfield and Other Essays’ (1959), while Murry wrote on Eliot's drama in ‘Unprofessional Essays’, published in 1956.
