Attractive inscribed memento.

[c.1924]. Inscribed to an admiring fellow poet A highly appealing keepsake that features William Strang's famous portrait of Vita, "Lady with a Red Hat" (1918), inscribed on the mount, "For Miss Queenie Scott, V. Sackville West, gratefully acknowledging her kind letter, and hoping she has found occasion to smile over 'Seducers in Ecuador'". The "envelope", when opened out, encourages display, suggesting the genial response of a celebrated writer to an enthusiastic admirer. This is a pleasing association, inscribed to fellow writer Olive Hopper (1881-1924), who published under the pseudonym Queenie Scott-Hopper. Her "vaguely mystical verse containing angels and visions" (Platt, p. 111) was often anthologised for children during her lifetime, and her poetry was described as "romantic... simple... entirely undisturbing" (ibid). An ambitious poet, short-story writer, novelist, and librettist, Scott-Hopper's 1919 volume of children's verse, Pull the Bobbin!, was illustrated by Winifred M. Ackroyd, and in the mid-1950s Richard Harding Graves set her poem "Inside the Basket" to music. She additionally wrote historical articles for various periodicals, on subjects from Grace Darling to the Dukes of Northumberland. Sackville-West's Seducers in Ecuador (1924) was written for Virginia Woolf and published by the Hogarth Press. "Woolf returned the favour with her historical-fantasy novel Orlando (1928), a public love letter and tribute to Sackville-West. The novel sums up with unique subtlety and perception Vita's own multifaceted and sometimes discordant personality and her androgynous sexual appeal, historical imagination, and love of Knole" (ODNB). Half-tone portrait (115 x 76 mm) window mounted in a grey-green card "envelope", the flap decorated with an art deco embossed border, all mounted on paper pasted onto central interior panel of green card envelope (222 x 122 mm), dark green border to top flap. Portrait and window mount lifting slightly, trivial foxing to upper edges else clean, faint toning to edges of window mount, green envelope lightly sunned, corners a touch rubbed, one creased, but overall clean, sharp, and attractively presented. Jane Platt, Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929, 2016.