Daphne Fielding

After being ill for many months, VT died in London of pleurisy.

IT died not long after burglars had broken into her London home while she was there, and robbed her. Her death (aged seventy-one) was said to be connected with the nervous shock of this event...

Shortly after her performance as Eurydice, VT moved to Italy to continue her operatic training. She arrived about 5 September 1910 in Milan, where she studied, with intermittent visits to England, until autumn...

By mid-1917, VT had met the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier , who became an important figure in her life, especially after the blow of her father's death in July that year. Once she had to...

IT 's poetry has received little critical attention. There exists one popular biography of her, by Daphne Fielding .

IT 's sole biographer, Daphne Fielding , records that Tree wrote a number of plays during her time in Ireland. It seems they were not printed, since there are no records of them in...

Her unpublished letters are said to offer brilliant concoctions of fantasy and hyperbole. Her biographer, Daphne Fielding , writes that her letters are so evocative that she seemed to spring out of the envelope as...