FS
's mother was born Marie Adrienne Josephine Desfontaines
. She met her husband in Mauritius and they married on 27 October 1846. She died in February 1871, while FS
was still in her teens...
Leisure and Society
Flora Shaw
The gaieties of FS
's first Londonseason were tempered by the increase of her domestic responsibilities which fell to her following her elder sister Mimi
's marriage and her mother
's worsening illness.
