Five years after Ivy came home from college, her mother's death left her, her brother Noel, and Martyn Mowll
as joint trustees and guardians of her four younger sisters: Vera
, Judy
, Topsy
...
Friends, Associates
Eleanor Farjeon
Back in London she acquired a circle of largely musical friends, many of them later well-known names, including Myra Hess
and Clifford
and Arnold Bax
. Later this circle expanded to include literary people: Viola Meynell
Intertextuality and Influence
Noel Streatfeild
Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill
, published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family...
Timeline
October 1939: Pianist Myra Hess began giving special wartime...
Building item
October 1939
Pianist Myra Hess
began giving special wartime after-work concerts, starting at 5:30, at the National Gallery (from which the most precious pictures had already been removed as a precaution against destruction by bombs).
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
