Basil De Selincourt

Born in 1877, Basil de Sélincourt was a British essayist and journalist remembered for literary criticism and reflective prose. Reliable reference material identifies him as a writer and critic, and notes that he worked in the world of letters rather than in fiction alone.

His personal life also linked him to notable writers and intellectuals. He married the orientalist Beryl de Zoete in 1902; that marriage ended, and in 1908 he married the novelist Anne Douglas Sedgwick, who died in 1935.

Some sources give his birth year as 1877 rather than 1876, so that detail is worth treating with care. He died in 1966.