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Showing posts with label Evelyn Cheesman. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Evelyn Cheesman. Show all posts

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Twenty years of Lord Bonkers: Part 2

Yesterday I posted the first part of my article marking the fact that I have been writing Lord Bonkers' Diary for Liberator for 20 year...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Evelyn Cheesman and Gumley latest

A couple of days ago I wrote : I was first attracted to Evelyn Cheesman by the suggestion that she had started her career as a governess at ...

Monday, March 08, 2010

Getting to know Evelyn Cheesman

As an oblique contribution to International Women's Day, let's have a look at the two Evelyn Cheesman I bought in Finedon . One is s...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Harrowden Books, Finedon

I have been to Finedon in Northamptonshire today. It is a village between Kettering and Wellingborough whose history was dominated by the Do...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

More on Evelyn Cheesman

In November I discovered Evelyn Cheesman , the governess from Gumley Hall who collected specimens in the South Seas. There is more about her...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman: Gumley Hall to New Guinea

One last fruit of my summer obsession with Gumley is the discovery of Lucy Evelyn Cheeman. Her entry in Ray Desmond's Dictionary of Bri...

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