LAT
's storyThe Captain's Bride was included in the collection The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's End, edited by Henry Norman
and Austin Dobson
and published at New York in 1887. Stories...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ménie Muriel Dowie
MMD
's first marriage (to Henry Norman
) ended in a humiliating public divorce, on grounds of her adultery.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Ménie Muriel Dowie
The marital breakup painfully severed MMD
's relationship with her son when he was just five years old. His father
forbade her any access.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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You cannot possibly know . . . what the horror...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ménie Muriel Dowie
In a small private ceremony, MMD
married her first husband, Henry Norman
, a journalist and intrepid traveller.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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politics
Ménie Muriel Dowie
MMD
's speeches were successful, and Norman
's Unionist opponent was hopelessly upstaged. At least one journalist questioned, in view of her popularity, whether voters were making a decision based on Norman or his wife.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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politics
Ménie Muriel Dowie
MMD
campaigned on behalf of her husband Henry Norman
when he ran for MP as the Liberal candidate for South Wolverhampton.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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Residence
Ménie Muriel Dowie
MMD
and Henry Norman
purchased their first and only home together: Kitcombe Farm, near Winchester.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Ménie Muriel Dowie
She also contributed articles and reviews to the Daily Chronicle, which, by 1895, had Henry Norman
as its assistant editor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.