Phyllis Forbes Dennis (1884–1963) was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev. William MacDonald Bottome and Mary Bottome. In 1917, in Paris, she married Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis, a British diplomat working firstly in Marseilles and then in Vienna as Passport Control Officer, a cover for his real role as MI6 Head of Station with responsibility for Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Forbes Dennis died in July 1972 in Brighton.
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
—Phyllis Bottome
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