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
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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
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This is my ‘office’ at the moment (in my camper van). I have just about finished polishing the biography following editing. I still have a little bit more to finish. Annoyingly, I have two quotes which I can not find the references for. So, I have been going through ALL
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Today I visited the NRCD (National Resource Centre for Dance) at the University of Guildford. I had the pleasure of taking an item for donation, tinged with the sadness of the loss of a friend. The donated item was a large, bronze ‘medallion’ which belonged to Robert Lister. I have
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Miss Mawer visited Delphi in 1930, when the Ginner-Mawer School performed in Athens as part of the Second Delphic Festival. This photo shows the view from the slope of Mount Parnassus, looking out from the ruins of Delphi over the valley.
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The statues are called caryatids, and these two are the real deal, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Their copies are on the Acropolis, where the original six sisters originated. They are not part of the Parthenon, rather they are part of the temple called the Erechtheion, which is near
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Helga Bejach was a little girl who was forced to leave Germany at the start of the Second World War. Her mother had died sometime previously, so it was her father who made the difficult decision to send Helga and her sister, Irene, away, hopefully to keep them safe. Helga’s
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At last, a day came to which I had been looking forward to for a year. The ancient ruins at Delphi. I had been looking forward to this day in particular, as Delphi is closely connected with Irene Mawer. In 1930, the Ginner-Mawer School were invited to perform in the
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Next year (2026) wll be the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama.I am looking for suggestions of how to celebrate it – any ideas, please, anyone? At the moment I am undertaking my mini-pilgrimage to Greece, so I won’t be repeating that in
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In 1930, Miss Mawer went to Athens! About 40 people, all connected with the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama, went with her. The school gave performances at two theatres, one of which was (and still is) an open-air theatre on the Acropolis, next to the Parthenon. My husband, Andy,
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