![]() His 1916 Romance ("Chimborazo, Cotopaxi.") is probably the best remembered of his poems. During the period from the First World War until the mid-1930s, he was known primarily as a poet. On 5 April 1918, in Chelsea, he married Delphine Marguerite Dubuis (died 1951). There he met and befriended a number of literary intellectual figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Ottoline Morrell (the caricature of her in his book The Aesthetes ended their friendship). ![]() In 1907 he left for England to pursue a career in writing. ![]() Life īorn in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College. ![]() Walter James Redfern Turner (13 October 1884 – 18 November 1946) was an Australian-born, English-domiciled writer and critic. ![]()
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