Stein wrote that JCF's mother, born Henriette Malan
, fell in love when Constance was twelve with her son's English tutor. Faced with the prospect of her mother's leaving the family, the child lay on...
Travel
Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF, her mother
, and stepfather
, embarked on a Nile trip in the dahabiya Rachel with Thomas Gold Appleton
, a sixty-two-year-old American and addicted traveller whom Eugene Benson had met in Venice.