Neglected Writers: On F. M. Mayor and The Room Opposite & Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
By rights, F.M. Mayor should be one of England’s most beloved novelists. The Rector’s Daughter was a bestseller upon its initial release and her other books were moderate successes. Virginia Woolf and John Masefield admired her work, Bertrand Russell was a friend, and her one and only short story collection for adults — released posthumously in 1935 — received a glowing endorsement from M.R. James, arguably the world’s greatest writer of ghost stories.