One of LC
's first teachers was her nanny, Mary Kavanagh
, who tutored Leonora and told her ghost stories. When LC
was a child she was also exposed to stories by Beatrix Potter
,...
A few years later, during a sojourn in Norfolk, CADS
met and liked W. W. Jacobs
(although she described him as old-fashioned and as a neat, colourless man).
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
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The two families became...
Textual Production
Ethel Smyth
Also in 1913 ES
completed her comic opera The Boatswain's Mate, with an English libretto by W. W. Jacobs
.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.