Mary Charteris Countess of Wemyss

Cynthia Charteris, later LCA , was born (Heigh Presto as the clock struck four, as her mother wrote in her diary) at Clouds, near East Knoyle in Wiltshire, a family estate.

In less than three months LCA lost in rapid succession her mother , her eldest (institutionalised) son, her patron J. M. Barrie , and her father : it was Barrie's death which seemed to distress her most.

LCA 's mother, Mary , Lady Wemyss, was born a Wyndham, a descendent of the writer Félicité, Mme de Genlis , and of her royal lover Philippe Egalité , Duc d'Orléans (who was also father...

Her literary friends included Lady Cynthia Asquith , Lady Cynthia's mother Lady Wemyss , Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir , and E. V. Lucas of Punch. With Lucas some kind of breach took place before the...

She became an addict for the rest of her life, with few breaks, although the wartime diary, full of her feelings, was replaced in 1921 by something altogether more succinct and less expressive.Her mother had...

The Times Literary Supplement review pointed out the unusualness of a war novel centred on a noncombatant.Lady Wemyss , LCA 's mother, wrote that she wept a lot in reading this book, and...

Miranda discovers during the course of the story that her mother was an unfaithful wife, and in due course discovers that her biological father was not as she had supposed her mother's husband. She feels...

It showcases the character Lady Emily Leslie (based on a recent actual acquaintance, Lady Wemyss ). Lady Emily is warm-hearted and chaotic. The novel opens on the vicar's feelings as he embarks on the morning...

Her Pomfrets are presumably modelled on the actual Wyndham family, since they are the birth family of her fictional Lady Emily Leslie, who was based on the real-life Lady Wemyss , née Wyndham. AT enjoyed...

AT visited her friend Lady Wemyss at her husband's family estate, Gosford House, near Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland.