Margaret Jourdain

The most important of Cynthia's governesses, Charlotte Jourdain , arrived on the scene when she was six, after the death of her brother Colin. Her arrival initiated a very important time in Cynthia's childhood, lasting...

Freelance writer and journalist Margaret Jourdain moved in with ICB ; they lived together until Jourdain's death in 1951.

The writer Margaret Jourdain , with whom ICB had lived for more than thirty years, died of a blood clot on diseased lungs.

In August 1916 FS fled to London after her broken engagement and stayed with Viva Jeyes . To help speed Freya's recovery, Viva introduced her to author and translator Margaret Jourdain .

ICB and her partner, Margaret Jourdain , went on an expensive regime of banting or slimming, under medical supervision, which seems to have worked for them.

Margaret Jourdain (herself the author of many books in print) told the antiquarian Joan Evans , Ivy has written a book and I expect it's very bad. We have decided I shan't read it and...

ICB published another novel, Darkness and Day, which was written during Margaret Jourdain 's final illness.

FS worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain at the British Museum .

ICB was made a DBE: she was amused at being decorated for the second time by a Labour government, but said she could not believe she was a real Dame sincee Margaret did not know...

ICB and Margaret Jourdain held a house-warming party on moving from a flat in Linden Gardens to 5 Braemar Mansions, Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington.

ICB and Margaret Jourdain , obeying government instructions to evacuate London, had become paying guests at Bottisham Hall near Cambridge.

As the war hotted up, ICB and Margaret Jourdain (having first tried Wiltshire) moved to stay with Joan Hadden at Calves Hill, Chedworth, Gloucestershire.

ICB and Margaret Jourdain took a furnished bungalow called Zealand at Thatcham in Berkshire.

ICB and Margaret Jourdain returned to London from their bungalow at Thatcham.

ICB and Margaret Jourdain left London again, to live at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast.