Barbara Collingwood was the second daughter of W. G. Collingwood. She married Oscar Gnosspelius in 1925. Arthur proposed to Barbara twice (first in 1905), though she "took two years or so to make up her mind not to marry him". He also proposed to her sister Dora (LAR p44)(TLE p48,124). Arthur's 1916 book Old Peter's Russian Tales was dedicated to Miss Barbara Collingwood. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by giving it some cream puffs.