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July 29, 2025 Biography

Title and Subtitle

Help! I have the title, but I can’t decide on the subtitle. Any comments (here, or privately) would be greatly appreciated, please. The title is: Irene Mawer, the biography. (Well, it does what it says on the tin!). There will be a series of three books, the next one being

July 22, 2025 Biography

Mrs. Durling

Mrs. Durling, as I called her – never Noni, which was her nickname, was born Nora Bond. I don’t know her exact birthdate, but I estimate it was around 1905. She was my mime teacher at the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s. Mrs Durling had been married

July 15, 2025 Biography

The Website

I asked Ai to assess my Irene Mawer website (a WordPress site which repeats the Facebook blog). I am pleased with the result, except for the American spellings: The website “irenemawer.com” is a dedicated online resource focused on the life, work, and legacy of Irene Mawer (1893-1962), a significant but

July 8, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

Irene Mawer at the V&A

If you are planning a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, you could check out if they are allowing access to a piece of theatrical history: a plaque dedicated to Irene Mawer. In her hey-day, Miss Mawer was hailed as “The Great English Exponent of the art

July 1, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

Sunderers

I was looking for a poem called The Sundurers by D H Lawrence. However, I don’t think it exists. I have found a painting called The Sunderers, with a reference from a poem called Walk Warily, by D H Lawrence, which is presumably the connection. The full-page illustration accompanies the