Leonora Eyles

Leonora Eyles
BornMargaret Leonora Pitcairn
(1889-09-01)1 September 1889
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Died27 July 1960(1960-07-27) (aged 70)
Hampstead, London, England
Genrenovel
Notable worksCaptivity

Margaret Leonora Eyles (née Pitcairn, later Murray; 1 September 1889 – 27 July 1960) was an English novelist, feminist and memoirist. Captivity (1922) has been described by critics as "her strongest fictional expression of the chains that bind women, body and soul."[1]

  1. ^ Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (London: Batsford, 1990), pp. 349–350.