(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, a modernist poem that critic Julia Briggs deemed “modernism’s lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition.”
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
- Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd (1919)
- The Counterplot, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd (1924)
- Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)
Poetry
- Paris: A Poem, Hogarth Press (1919)
- Poems, Cape Town, Gothic (1963)
- Moods and Tensions: Poems (1976)
- “Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees” (2011), edited by Sandeep Parmar
Non-fiction
- “Listening in to the Past”, in The Nation & Athenaeum, 11 September (1926)
- “The Religion of Women”, in The Nation & Athenaeum, 28 May (1927)
- “Gothic Dreams”, in The Nation & Athenaeum, 3 March (1928)
- “Bedside Books”, in Life and Letters, December (1928)
- A Fly in Amber: Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1962)
