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Pamela Grey
1871–1928
An English writer from the brilliant Wyndham sisters circle, she wrote with an eye for memory, feeling, and the literary life around her. Her books range from verse and anthologies to children’s stories, essays, and a moving memoir shaped by the losses of the First World War.
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The children and the pictures
by Pamela Grey
About the author
Born Pamela Adelaide Genevieve Wyndham in 1871, she later became known as Pamela Grey, Viscountess Grey of Fallodon. She was part of the celebrated Wyndham family and moved in the heart of late Victorian and Edwardian literary society, where she was known not only as a hostess and social figure but also as a writer in her own right.
Her published work was varied. She wrote poetry and prose, edited anthologies, produced children’s books, and published essay collections including The White Wallet and Shepherd’s Crowns. In 1919 she brought out a memoir of her son Edward Wyndham Tennant, who was killed in the First World War; the book became one of her best-known works and gives her writing an especially personal, elegiac note.
She died in 1928. Today she is remembered both for the world she belonged to and for writing that captures affection, loss, and the reflective mood of her time.