Edward Arthur FitzGerald

MMD began an affair with friend-of-the-family and millionaire Edward Arthur FitzGerald .

MMD married, at Hampstead registry office, the wealthy mountaineer and mountain writer Edward Arthur FitzGerald , with whom she had been having an affair.

MMD took legal steps to separate her finances from those of Edward FitzGerald , her second husband, from whom she had removed herself physically the previous year.

Only a little over a year after separating legally from MMD , her second husband, Edward FitzGerald , died at the age of fifty-nine.

MMD was related to several notable literary and cultural figures, including her cousin Elizabeth (Liza) Lehmann , a distinguished vocalist and composer best known for her song cycle In a Persian Garden. The song...

MMD and her second husband purchased Marsden Manor near Cirencester.

In September 1899 MMD and her husband set out to visit Russia together, along with their friend the mountain climber Edward Arthur FitzGerald . Part way through their journey, Henry Norman discovered it was necessary...