RA
published When I Was a Queen in Babylon, a novel dedicated to her dear friends Alec
and Nelsa
in loving gratitude for all their love and understanding.
Allatini, Rose. When I Was a Queen in Babylon. Mills and Boon, 1921.
prelims
She had met them through...
Friends, Associates
Rose Allatini
The Chaplins, Alec
and Nelsa
(christened Ellen Louisa, also known as Christabel or Christobel Portman
), were both occultists, Theosophists, and practitioners of alternative medicine. Cyril Scott had met Nelsa (who worked with him on...
Textual Features
Rose Allatini
From there she goes to stay with a mind specialist,
Wynter, R. A. “When I was a Queen in Babylon”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1021, 11 Aug. 1921, p. 518.
518
Stephen Davenport, whom she secretly loves. Stephen and his sister Cecilia run a kind of home for the sick or disturbed; Jean...
Textual Features
Rose Allatini
This novel opens in lively style with a clock striking sixteen, one of the signs of neglect and decay at Restholme, the rest home for spiritual healing to which Pauline Macnair (the young French...
