Margaret Jourdain

Standard Name: Jourdain, Margaret

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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
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.
263
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
209
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.
208-9
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
63-4
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
171-2

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