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'Of Cautious
Melody'
Some of my works for NT Ightham Mote
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My biography of the great English alto/mezzo, Mary Postans (Mrs Alfred Shaw), whose portraits and piano (chosen for her by Felix Mendelssohn) are displayed at Ightham Mote.
My lecture on: Ightham Mote:
Its Late-Medieval Economic and Geographical Context.
'A Masterpiece is Born': my slide show for Ightham Mote café on the story of John Singer Sargent's famous portrait of Miss Elsie Palmer, aged 17, which was painted at Ightham Mote in 1889.
The story of the Strettell sisters and the Aesthetic Movement at Ightham Mote. Please note that this includes disturbing copies of original suicide notes from the husband of Elsie Palmer.
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