The Counterplot
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The Counterplot is the second novel by Hope Mirrlees. Written in 1923, it was originally published in 1924, and is the only one of Mirrlees's three novels to take place in then-contemporary settings,
First US edition cover
Raymond Mortimer
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Charles Raymond Bell Mortimer CBE, who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor.
The Counterplot
…Nation compared Mirrlees' writing style for this novel to Walter Pater as well as Thomas Browne and Joris-Karl Huysmans. The book was notably praised by Raymond Mortimer in The New Statesman. In a mixed review by The Courier-Journal, David Garnett praised the work for depictions of its family dynamics. However, Garnett…
Edward Sackville-West, with Mortimer (right), at Garsington Manor, June 1923.