NELLIE BURTON
Nellie Burton, known affectionately as ‘Dame Nellie’ in literary circles, hosted and cared for some of the great writers of her age. Her introduction into the literary world came through being Robbie Ross’s moth- er’s maid, but she would later host Sassoon, Ross and other writers in London at her residence for single gentlemen on 40 Half Moon Street. Sassoon was very fond of her, as she was of him, calling him “my beloved Saint Siegfried”. When Sassoon was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for the book of- fered opposite, Burton, along with Edith Olivier and Edmund Blunden, attended the ceremony as his representatives.
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