Cynthia Asquith
Asquith, Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris
September 27, 1887 – March 31, 1960 (aged 72)
Birth place: Clouds, Wiltshire, England, UK
Browse magazine works (first published 1925)
<br> Private secretary to , 1918 to 1937 "CA's major contribution to Supernatural Fiction was as an anthologist. ... The books [5 probably] established a standard for ghost-story Anthologies that few have bettered. CA applied the same exacting standards to her anthologies for children, which contain many magical fantasies." --<i>Encyclopedia of Fantasy</i> (Mike Ashley)