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Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | The most important of Cynthia's governesses, Charlotte Jourdain
, arrived on the scene when she was six, after the death of her brother Colin. Her arrival initiated a very important time in Cynthia's childhood, lasting... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The writer Margaret Jourdain
, with whom ICB
had lived for more than thirty years, died of a blood clot on diseased lungs. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 208-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Freelance writer and journalist Margaret Jourdain
moved in with ICB
; they lived together until Jourdain's death in 1951. Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974. 263 Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 209 |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | In August 1916 FS
fled to London after her broken engagement and stayed with Viva Jeyes
. To help speed Freya's recovery, Viva introduced her to author and translator Margaret Jourdain
. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 267-9 |
Leisure and Society | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and her partner, Margaret Jourdain
, went on an expensive regime of banting or slimming, under medical supervision, which seems to have worked for them. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 48 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Margaret Jourdain
(herself the author of many books in print) told the antiquarian Joan Evans
, Ivy has written a book and I expect it's very bad. We have decided I shan't read it and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
published another novel, Darkness and Day, which was written during Margaret Jourdain
's final illness. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 207, 213 |
Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain
at the British Museum
. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 269 |
Reception | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
was made a DBE: she was amused at being decorated for the second time by a Labour government, but said she could not believe she was a real Dame sincee Margaret
did not know... |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
, obeying government instructions to evacuate London, had become paying guests at Bottisham Hall near Cambridge. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 146 |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | As the war hotted up, ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
(having first tried Wiltshire) moved to stay with Joan Hadden
at Calves Hill, Chedworth, Gloucestershire. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 155-6 |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
took a furnished bungalow called Zealand at Thatcham in Berkshire. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 158-9 |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
returned to London from their bungalow at Thatcham. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 161-2 |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
left London again, to live at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 171-2 |
Residence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
and Margaret Jourdain
held a house-warming party on moving from a flat in Linden Gardens to 5 Braemar Mansions, Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 63-4 |
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