Susan Tweedsmuir

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ST , still Susan Buchan and married to a more famous author, John Buchan , began publishing in collaboration with him. From their joint novel, published just after the First World War, she continued on her own to biography, books for children, and plays, then to a novel of her own. As a widow she authored a travel book, edited unpublished work by her husband, returned to novel-writing, and found her niche (since much of her work is dominated by recovery of the past) with three volumes of slight and apparently haphazard (but charming) memoirs that took the form of retrospective essays.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Susan Tweedsmuir, seated, in formal evening dress: a pale sleeveless gown with V neck and two medals pinned to it, white elbow-length gloves, a white ostrich-feather fan, tiara, necklace, and drop pearl earrings. Her hair is short, curled at the sides.

Milestones

By June 1882
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor (later ST ) was born in London, the elder of two sisters.
Her birth was registered this month.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under John Buchan
Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth, 1952.
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October 1966
ST completed her three slender volumes of heterogenous and idiosyncratic memoirs with the publication of The Edwardian Lady, dedicated to her daughter Alice.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987.
1967
OCLC WorldCat.
Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Edwardian Lady. G. Duckworth, 1966.
prelims
21 March 1977
ST died at the age of ninety-four, after thirty-seven years of widowhood.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897.

Biography

Birth and Background

By June 1882
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor (later ST ) was born in London, the elder of two sisters.
Her birth was registered this month.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under John Buchan
Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth, 1952.
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