Flora Macdonald Mayor
was born in Montpelier Row at Twickenham in Middlesex, England, as a younger twin sister to Alice Mayor
.
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Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, pp. 169-71.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Flora Macdonald Mayor
FMM
was particularly close to her elder twin sister, Alice Mayor
, an unfailing assurance, a buttress and a confidante.
Morgan, Janet. “Introduction: The Squire’s Daughter”. The Rector’s Daughter, Virago, p. v - xii.
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The two were each the other's lifelong closest friend.
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
42
They maintained daily correspondence...
Textual Features
Flora Macdonald Mayor
On top of this, FMM
also gives a lively caricature,
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
266
a scathing portrait of literary society, especially the Friday Club
, the embryonic Bloomsbury [Group] founded by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell
...