ANDERSON (Mary, de Navarro, 1859-1940, American Actress, friend of Wilde)

Autograph Letter Signed in her married name (‘de Navarro’) to Mr Broadfield sending him “the medals and another picture for you! Abbot Forquet was to be here today but is ill I hear - now the Stenbrook nuns say he is to be with them on the 13th and he is supposed to come on to us from there. How will he manage your meeting... I only hope he will soon be better. Send me please enough of the programmes to be sent to friends in town...””, 2 sides 8vo., Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, no date

A devout Roman Catholic, she had a chapel built in her attic, with stained-glass windows designed by Paul Woodroffe. She has been cited as a model for characters in the Mapp and Lucia novels of E F Benson, either the operatic soprano Olga Bracely or Lucia herself, as well as the prototype for the heroine of William Black's novel The Strange Adventures of a House-Boat.[

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Stock No:  42394      £55

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