Brigit Patmore

Brigit Patmore (née Ethel Elizabeth Morrison-Scott; 1888–1965) was an English author and London society hostess.

Life Born in 1888, her mother's family landowners in Ulster, Ethel Elizabeth Morrison-Scott married John Deighton Patmore, a successful insurance executive, the grandson of Victorian poet Coventry Patmore. They lived in a large house near Holland Park; their marriage was long but not close or confidential. Through the family's literary connections and through her friendship with novelist and suffragist Violet Hunt, she had built a solid reputation as an influential literary hostess by the end of 1911. Biographers describe her as "an indefatigable sponsor of unknown talent".

Patmore's son Derek describes her as a beautiful, slightly melancholy young woman who craved attention and affection. Following the breakup of Aldington and H.D.'s marriage, Patmore and he had a ten-year relationship, living together and travelling across Europe. He was in recovery from his time serving in the First World War, writing his best-known works, and she wrote This Impassioned Onlooker (1926) and No Tomorrow (1929). Patmore wrote "A Memoir of Frieda Lawrence," published in A D. H. Lawrence Miscellany.

Works This Impassioned Onlooker (1926). Short stories No Tomorrow (1929). Novel My friends when young: the memoirs of Brigit Patmore, Heinemann, 1968

Further resources Archival material at Yale Patmore literary archive at Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas