A Winter Sports Alphabet

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Pictures by Joyce Dennys, verses by "Evoe" (E. V. Knox)

(The Bodley Head, 1926)

From the collection of Alfonso Melendez

I look forward to reading and collecting books by the British author and illustrator Joyce Dennys (1893–1991). You can see a gallery of her paintings at the BBC's Your Paintings site. Bloomsbury republished her two collections of epistolary fiction Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees It Through. Nonsuch Book describes the first and Book Snob the second.

Evoe was the pseudonym of E. V. Knox, father of Penelope Fitzgerald. (See her book The Knox Brothers.)

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This post first appeared on January 27, 2015 on 50 Watts