Blog – Page 8 – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

October 18, 2021 Janet Fizz Curtis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

June 24, 2025 Biography

Lohengrin

Miss Mawer owned at least four pieces of jewellery that meant something special to her. Three of them were necklaces, and one that was worn regularly by Miss Mawer depicted a cloaked man on a swan. This was Lohengrin, a character from old German literature in the vein of King