Ernest Shepherd
was a tall, thin, very gentleman-like man, with kind, humorous brown eyes hidden behind glasses, a drooping moustache and an immense capacity for caring about other people's feelings.
Oldfield, Sybil. Spinsters of This Parish: The Life and Times of FM Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks. Virago, 1984.
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The closest friend of...
Literary responses
Flora Macdonald Mayor
Rediscovery of FMM
was fostered by Sybil Oldfield
, who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks
). During...
Timeline
15-21 June 1913: The Congress of the International Women's...