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  • October 18, 2021 Janet Fizz Curtis

    ***Lavender Yates*** Tim *** message***

    MESSAGE FOR TIM. Please can you contact me again?  The email address that I have for you does not respond

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  • April 28, 2026 webmaster

    Typo

    Typo. A typo (short for typographical error) is a small, unintentional mistake made while typing or printing text, such as

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  • black text on white page listing some of the contents of the autobiography
    April 21, 2026 webmaster

    A Lie-in.

    This morning I stayed in bed until about 8 am – which is a huge lie-in for me. Apart from

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  • a pub on the bank of a river, water in the foreground.
    April 7, 2026 webmaster

    Part 4 – Where is Miss Mawer’s Heraldic Lion?

    When Miss Mawer visited the lion, where was it? Why did she go there? And what did the lion look

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  • Irene Mawer, sitting.
    March 31, 2026 webmaster

    Part 3 – The Lion (and the witch, not forgetting the wardrobe)

    C S Lewis is, to many people, a children’s author; he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia tales, which includes The

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  • photo of the stone coronet from the head of the Heraldic Lion statue
    March 24, 2026 webmaster

    Part 2 – A Heraldic Mullet

    In my previous blog post, I wrote about Miss Mawer sitting on a life-sized, stone lion and that Toby had

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  • photo of a statue of a lion, carved in stone, wearing a coronet.
    March 17, 2026 webmaster

    The Godstow Heraldic Lion

    Deep in the Irene Mawer Archives (otherwise known as ‘the old biscuit tin in the attic’) there lies a lovely

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  • March 10, 2026 webmaster

    A Lost Strand

    What does the word ‘mime’ mean to you? For many people, it suggests silence: a performer with a white face,

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  • screenshot showing a paragraph of manuscript. Paragraph is highlighted in blue.
    March 3, 2026 webmaster

    Paraphrasing

    In a previous blog post, I wrote about how I was working hard at self-editing, cutting the number of words

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February 20, 2024 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Rare Photo

Well!  Here is a turn-up for the books.  This newspaper article has a photo of Irene Mawer.  I have never seen this photo before and it is an extremely rare occurrence to see Mawer’s photo anywhere at all.  And guess what?  I have failed to note which newspaper and what

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February 13, 2024 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Birmingham Repertory Playgoers’ Society 1937

Birmingham Gazette, 17 September 1937 1937 – it was two years before the start of World War 2 and Irene Mawer was flying high.  In this newspaper article, we learn that she visited Birmingham.  As mentioned in the article, Mawer already had close connections with the Birmingham School of Speech

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February 6, 2024 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / Uncategorized / voice

Boscastle Summer School

During the Second World War, the Ginner-Mawer School evacuated from London to the tiny village of Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall.   The school year followed the normal academic year, with the usual long summer vacations.  Presumably the war made it difficult, or impossible, to hold the annual

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January 30, 2024 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Valency Fields, Boscastle

Mystery surrounds the National Trust car park in Boscastle.  The car park came to my attention when I was told that the original land – Valency Fields (a green and unspoiled area of grass), had been donated to the National Trust by Nancy Sherwood, longstanding member of the Ginner-Mawer family.  

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January 23, 2024 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Uncategorized / voice

Colour Theory

Colour Theory Costume design and production were another two areas where Irene Mawer excelled.  In her book Rhymes and Plays for The Bobblies (Bobblies being small children) she gives a wonderful description of how she envisaged one of the scenes. On this occasion, the scene was a religious depiction of the

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  • Typo
  • A Lie-in.
  • Part 4 – Where is Miss Mawer’s Heraldic Lion?
  • Part 3 – The Lion (and the witch, not forgetting the wardrobe)
  • Part 2 – A Heraldic Mullet
  • The Godstow Heraldic Lion
  • A Lost Strand
  • Paraphrasing
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