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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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December 1, 2019 Biography / Blog / Mime

Irene Mawer’s 57th Death Anniversary

57 years ago today (1st December 2019), Irene Mawer suffered a fatal stroke at her home in Blewbury, England.  She died, aged 69 years.

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November 30, 2019 Biography / Blog / Mime

HOW TO PUBLISH A BOOK?

Publishing a book?            I intend to publish Irene Mawer’s biography.                            If you can advise me how to publish or print a book, please get in touch. My intention is to raise the profile of Irene

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November 30, 2019 Biography / Blog / Mime

Irene Mawer’s Movement Training

Irene Mawer (1893-1962) is generally accepted to have been an important influence on movement training for actors.   I am probably the last person to be trained in the Irene Mawer Method of Mime and Movement, but would love to be proved wrong. My teacher was Mrs Nora (Noni) Durling, of Leeds.

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  • Typo
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  • 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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