William Francis Brown

A requiem mass was held for JOH at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown . She was buried...

She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer

JOH seems to have suffered from repeated suicidal impulses, and while they abated later in her life (after the end of her marriage), despair over a chill in her close friendship with William Francis Brown

Critic John Sutherland says that in later life JOH was a member of the Anti-Suffrage League . While neither Margaret Maison nor Mildred Davis Harding confirm this, they both quote from a letter she wrote...