Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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death | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl was taken seriously ill on their honeymoon to Cannes. On the journey back to England she had to be carried on a litter. She was lame and on crutches for a time, and... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Craig | Sybil Thorndike
presided over the dinner, and Queen Mary
sent her congratulations. EC
was presented with a cheque and a scroll signed by two hundred friends. Playwright Cicely Hamilton
was among the speakers who paid... |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | 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 |
Leisure and Society | Flora Klickmann | FK
was a collector of dolls'-house furniture, which she rightly regarded as a legitimate art form. Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976. 14n |
Leisure and Society | Violet Trefusis | VT
, like Alice Keppel
, spent part of the war at endless parties, qtd. in Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 281 |
Literary responses | Freya Stark | John Jock Murray
and Sir Sydney Cockerell
initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the... |
Occupation | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | Along with acting, MLR
continued to work as a producer. On 15 March 1920 her production of Come out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller
opened at the Strand Theatre
. This domestic comedy... |
politics | George Egerton | The protesters marched to Buckingham Palace, where King George V
and Queen Mary
appeared on the balcony. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958. 85 |
Residence | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | When first married, CADS
lived in a luxurious home at 2 Bennet Street in London. Her husband was often called out suddenly to nearby St James's Palace to attend on members of the royal... |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins
tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | During the early 1920s VSW
was invited by Queen Mary
to provide a text for the collection in her famous dolls' house. Sackville-West obliged with a tiny-weeny handwritten book, A Note of Explanation, which... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | At the invitation of Queen Mary
, VSW
contributed a tiny miniature book during the early 1922 for the library shelves of the queen's celebrated dolls' house at Windsor Castle. Entitled A Note of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
credits Queen Mary
and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war. Billington, Mary Frances. The Roll-Call of Serving Women: A Record of Woman’s Work for Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War. The Religious Tract Society, 1915. 24 |
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