![]() ![]() ![]() 1 This was familiar territory to Mary Butts, who had been born in 1890 outside Poole in ‘the kind of house the Dorsetshire gentry lived in’, 2 and had spent her youth immersed in an ‘old, hardy, fragrant, rural world’, as she recalled in her autobiography, her family home looking out over what she called ‘the green body of the Purbeck Hills, like a naked god laid down asleep’. The writer was Mary Butts, her lover was the occultist Cecil Maitland, and their friend was the painter and sculptor Gladys Hynes. In the spring of 1922, a young writer, her lover and their artist friend spent two weeks at South Egliston Cottage, a house which sits at the head of a fan-shaped wood between Tyneham Cap and Kimmeridge Bay, at the uncertain western edge of the Purbeck peninsula. ![]()
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