At the moment when Olive boasts how she will never marry without love, she feels she has an alternative to marriage: she is writing a novel, her dream-child.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
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1921: Sir Edward Elgar opened the original His...
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1921
Sir Edward Elgar
opened the original His Master's Voice
or HMV shop in London, selling gramophone records.
“Company of the Month: HMV”. Pearson and Longman’s Business World.
4 June 1924: Sir Edward Elgar became the first composer...
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4 June 1924
Sir Edward Elgar
became the first composer to be named Master of the King's Music.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.