He did not visit India, and his writings about it have been seen by some critics as reflecting his own intellectual milieu and its concerns. He was independently wealthy from his mid-20s, travelled and began to write. In 1908 he married the American Elsie Palmer (1873–1955), daughter of General William Palmer,[2] and a friend of John Singer Sargent, who painted her. He made many friends of different kinds, and late in life broke with most of them.[4] In the 1930s he wrote in sympathy with Marxist thought, and became increasingly pessimistic in his outlook.[clarification needed] He committed suicide on 7 April 1944 by taking an overdose of Veronal.[2][5][6]
Rajah Amar (1935), published as The Root and the Flower
Strange Glory (1936)
The Pool Of Vishnu (1940) now sometimes included as part 4 of The Root and the Flower
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Creswell, Sophia (2004). "Myers, Leopold Hamilton (1881–1944)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35178. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Notes
^ a bHamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian search for life after death. Imprint Academic. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-8454-0248-8.
^ a b cCresswell (2004)
^"Myers, Leo (MRS860FW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^Adrian Wright, The Past is a Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley (1996), p, 131.
^Caroline Moorehead. Iris Origo: marchesa of Val d'Orcia[permanent dead link], Boston: David R. Godine, 2002 (1st ed. London: John Murray, 2000). ISBN 9781567921830. p. 256.
^Hamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian search for life after death. Imprint Academic. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-8454-0248-8.
^Adrian Wright, The Past is a Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley (1996), p, 91.
^Robert Crossley, Olaf Stapledon; Speaking for the Future (1994), p. 194.
^"the Violet Apple.org.uk — L H Myers".
^Malcolm Easton, Frank Dobson's 'Cornucopia' (Hull University Art Collection), The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 111, No. 795 (Jun., 1969), pp. 382-386.
^"Conversion: Islam, the growing religion". Archived from the original on 23 November 2002.
^Jeffrey Meyers, George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (1997), p. 16.