"Through the pages of [her book] Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub elbows with them ourselves, but she willingly shows us her own elbow, which has been, so to say, honed on the mighty."
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Dorothy Parker, "Re-enter Margot Asquith - A Masterpiece from the French," The New Yorker, October 22, 1927
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Margot Asquith
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford & Asquith (2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945) was a Scottish-born socialite and author, married to the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
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