Jackson, Richard. “Lilian Bowes Lyon”. Cornucopia: An Edwardian Album.
Elizabeth queen consort of King George VI
Standard Name: Elizabeth,, queen consort of King George VI
Used Form: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Used Form: Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Her father, the Hon. Francis Bowes-Lyon, was a cousin of the future Queen Elizabeth
(wife of George VI and subsequently for many years Queen Mother). He died on 18 February 1948. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Later relations of MEBCS
include Queen Elizabeth II
(through her mother
, who was born a Bowes-Lyon) and John Bowes
, the Victorian illegitimate son who built and endowed the splendid Bowes Museum
in County Durham. |
| Friends, Associates | Lilian Bowes Lyon | It was here that she brought Queen Elizabeth (later known as the Queen Mother
) and Anthony Eden
(then Foreign Secretary) Day, James Wentworth. The Queen Mother’s Family Story. Robert Hale, 1967. 123 Day, James Wentworth. The Queen Mother’s Family Story. Robert Hale, 1967. 120 |
| Occupation | Lilian Bowes Lyon | In London LBL
nursed the wounded during the First World War, then took up social activism. She was for years the head of the Women's Voluntary Service
. During the Second World War, while keeping... |
| Occupation | John Buchan | He made himself popular in Canada, partly through his skill with language, in French as well as in English. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says, His intention was to develop a Canadian as well... |
| Occupation | Edith Sitwell | ES
gave a poetry reading at the Aeolian Hall attended by the queen
and her daughters. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 165 |
| politics | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Her response to the war was political as well as humanitarian. She wrote that she wanted a new world where such monstrous things are simply impossible. qtd. in “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (30 July 1949): 7 |
| politics | Margaret Kennedy | |
| Publishing | Penelope Mortimer | Viking
published PM
's biography, Queen Elizabeth
: A Life of the Queen Mother, after Macmillan
, which had originally commissioned the book, refused it after all. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, 28 Oct. 1999, p. 26. 26 |
| Reception | Freya Stark | Recommended by the Book Society
and the Book Guild
, The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS
, rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen |
| Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | From 1937 to 1939 Kennedy had also kept a daily journal to console, from afar, a friend who had been recently widowed. This journal ended after she saw the King
and Queen
wearing gas masks... |
| Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
produced lives of two members of the royal family. The Duchess of York (about the woman later much loved as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) appeared in spring1928, and God Save the King (a... |
| Textual Production | Isabel Pagan | Not all IP
's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the... |
| Travel | Freya Stark | She became friendly with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
, and visited her at Caithness in Scotland. |
Timeline
6 December 1947: The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously,...
Building item
6 December 1947
The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously, if belatedly, voted to admit women for the first time as full members.
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
161n1
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
211
“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.
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