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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925)

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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."


Born: Shropshire, England, 1859.
Married: As she expected, Cholmondeley never married in her 66 years.
Career: Cholmondeley perceived the diversity of ethical sympathies to be a source of creative inspiration which produced a more expansive art.

Works Timeline:

  • The Danvers Jewels (1886)
  • Sir Charles Danvers (1889)
  • Let Loose (1890)
  • Diana Tempest (1893)
  • Devotee : An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly (1897)
  • Red Pottage (1899) (her best known work)
  • Prisoners (1906)
  • The Lowest Rung (1908)
  • Moth and Rust (1912)
  • After All (1913)
  • Notwithstanding (1913)
  • Under One Roof (1917)

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