Aet. 45, to a woman of letters. 3 Great Stanhope Street was the London home of Margaret Elizabeth Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1849-1945), an activist and writer whose novel The Generation That Squandered (1899) appeared under the pseudonym E. Fairfax Byrrne.
Old Master paintings were exhibited annually at the Royal Academy in December-January. Proof sheets of Evelyn Innes (1898) were now in being produced.
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