Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury
Friends, Associates
Katharine Tynan
Shortly after moving to Shankill, KT
met Lord Aberdeen
at a party at Dublin Castle; she maintained a long correspondence with him and his wife, Lady Aberdeen
. Lord Aberdeen was a Liberal politician...
CM
's sister Matilda
and her husband Frederick Chalmers
turned their house at Beckenham into an orphanage, giving their charges a good home and good educations at the church schools. The children were also taught...
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