Life
[Cecily Isabel Fairfield]; the English novelist, dg. of Charles Fairfield
of Anglo-Irish descent, listed as Irish in ‘Anglo-Irish Literature’
section of New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature,
ed. Daiches (1967). NCBE OCEL.
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References
Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature (OUP
1986) notes that she was known for witty defence of extreme individualism
in debate with Herbert Spencer and G. B. Shaw.
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