David Kennedy

After Elinor Sutherland (later EG ) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather 's book collection, which had recently...

EG 's mother married as her second husband, in 1871, a well-to-do, sixty-three-year-old bachelor, David Kennedy , a neighbour and long-time family friend (he had attended her first wedding). He had pursued her ceaselessly, but...

After the mother of Elinor Sutherland (later EG ) married David Kennedy , the new family moved from Canada back to Elinor's birthplace, Jersey in the Channel Islands.

In 1890, after the death of her oppressive stepfather, David Kennedy , Elinor Sutherland (later Glyn) moved with her mother from Jersey to London. With Elinor's sister, Lucy, they rented a house at 25 Davies...