Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsYoung Women Learning Journalism at London University, 1919-1939Her first two books were published under her maiden name, Mactaggart,but it was as a writer of detective fiction that Ferrars was one of the firstauthors to receive the highest payment then allowed when Public LendingRight legislation provided authors with an extra income based on thenumber of times their books were borrowed from public libraries. In 1984that maximum payment allowed, was £5,000. 27Those who followed careers in literature, as opposed to journalism,included from 1928-30: Betty Bergson Spiro, (1910-1965), later Miller(mother of Jonathan Miller the actor, director and psychologist) whoreviewed for the New Statesman and The Twentieth Century and wroteseveral biographies; from 1923-25: Eileen Nora Lees Bliss, who wrote twonovels as Eliot Bliss, only achieved a pass in Principles of Criticism, 28 whilethe distinction that Kathleen Nott achieved in her English Literature examenabled her to win an open exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, whereshe read politics, philosophy and economfcs, Nott combined an academiccareer with writing novels and became chief reviewer for The Observerlater in life, as well as supporting the work of International PEN, theassociation of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelistsconcerned with promoting co-operation between writers formed by Mrs.Dawson-Scott, in 1921,29Another young woman who only stayed one year and sat no exams, wasYvonne Mayer (1903-1999) later Kapp who was elected, by the Students’Union for 1921-22, to the editorship of the King’s College Review (King’sHospital students’ magazine) and served on the editorial sub-committee ofthe University of London Union Magazine. As ’most of the men had latelybeen demobilized and were no mere boys, but what we should now call"mature students" in their late twenties or early thirties, I had a mostwonderful time [in] the exciting everyday life of King’s College. ’3° But as shehad left home at eighteen, she needed work and audacity and good fortunesecured her a job on the Evening Standard at £4 a week. She asked AlecWaugh (1898-1981), to whom she had written a fan letter on publication ofhis first book The Loom of Youth, for help and he secured for her the postas an assistant to Miss Hogg, the editor of the women’s page, Then shewas seconded to act as a dogsbody to the editor of the Sunday Herald.While collecting contributors’ articles for this paper she had her ’first andwarming encounter with Rebecca West. ’31 But she lost that job afterarguing with the editor over a quotation from Shakespeare - ’1 was apretentious little literary snob. ’32By then, in August, 1922, Yvonne was married, aged 19, to her lover, theillustrator and artist, Edmond Kapp (1890-1978), thirteen years her seniorand he had just had his first exhibition with a foreword in the cataloguewritten by Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956). 33 Eric Hobsbawm describedthem as living ’the life of foot-loose and fairly penniless - but well-connected- bohemians of the 1920s, moving between the houses of Beerbohm andGordon Craig on the Italian Riviera, friends on Capri, and primitive Sussexand East Anglian cottages in the neighbourhood of the Bell’s and [JohnDesmond] Bernal’s, running into Rebecca West in Juan-les-Pins [where theScottish painter, J.D. Fergusson, was a friend] and being psycho-analysedby a Bloomsbury [Adrian] Stephen, ’34 Then, when pregnant with her210MOD100051381