Hope Mirrlees

Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1922) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); and two collections of poetry, Poems (1963) and Moods and Tensions (1976).