- CA QUA10066
- Person
- fl. 1930s
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Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928.
Anthony William Lars Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Frederick Britten Austin was a writer who was particularly interested in the theme of war and served in the Great War as a captain. His first novel was The Shaping of Lavinia (1911), which was about the marriage of a young woman. But one of his main interests was warfare: the first of the books on this theme was In Action: Studies of War in 1913. Austin also wrote a number of collections of short stories on a particular theme, which range from the prehistoric past to the present today.