prize of £3,200 answering questions on the works of Jane Austen. Personal life On 28 July 1910, Lady Cynthia married Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), second son of H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916, with whom he is sometimes confused. They had three children: John Michael Asquith (1911–1937), who suffered mental problems and died in an institution. Michael Henry Asquith (1914–2004), who married in 1938 Diana Eveline Montagu Battye, daughter of Lt.-Col. Perceval Lawrence Montagu Battye. They divorced in 1952; he married secondly Helga Brigitta Ebba Elizabeth Ritter, daughter of Dr Walther Sigmund Casimir Ritter, in 1953. Simon Roland Anthony Asquith (1919–1973), who married in 1942 Vivien Lawrence Jones, daughter of Sir Lawrence Jones, 5th Baronet and Lady Evelyn Alice Grey (a daughter of Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey) Lady Cynthia's husband died in Bath on 5 August 1947 aged 66, and Lady Cynthia herself on 31 March 1960, aged 72. Works The Duchess of York (1927), biography The Spring House (1936), novel Dreaming Lips (1937), screenplay One Sparkling Wave (1943), novel This Mortal Coil (1947), stories: "In a Nutshell", "The White Moth", "The Corner Shop", "God Grante That She Lye Stille", "The Playfellow", "The Nurse Never Told", "The Lovely Voice", "The First Night", "The Follower" Haply I May Remember (1950) What Dreams May Come (1951), stories (contents the same as This Mortal Coil, but with "The Follower" omitted and "The Nurse Never Told" retitled as "From What Beginnings?") Remember and be Glad (1952) Portrait of Barrie (1954) Married to Tolstoy (1960), biography Thomas Hardy at Max Gate (1969) As editor The Flying Carpet (1925) Treasure Ship (1926) The Ghost Book (1927) The Black Cap (1928) Shudders (1929) The Children's Cargo (1930) When Churchyards Yawn (1931) My Grimmest Nightmare (1935) The Second Ghost Book (1952) The Third Ghost Book (1955) Adaptations "God Grante That She Lye Stille", first published in When Churchyards Yawn, was adapted in 1961 by Robert Hardy Andrews as an episode of the anthology TV series Thriller. See also List of horror fiction authors List of science fiction editors References Further reading Cynthia Asquith, Lady Cynthia Asquith Diaries 1915–1918, Hutchinson, 1968 Nicola Beauman, Cynthia Asquith, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 Julian Fane, Best Friends: Memories of David and Rachel Cecil, Cynthia Asquith, L. P. Hartley and some others, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990 External links Asquith, (Lady) Cynthia in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1887 births