Word: ethelwyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maugham was furious at the suggestion. Now Calder advances proof -direct testimony supported by persuasive circumstance-that Rosie was based on a woman named Ethelwyn Sylvia Jones. As Calder reconstructs it, she was the second daughter of a minor playwright, herself an actress, beautiful, intelligent, full-blown, artlessly warmhearted. Maugham met her in 1904. Their affair lasted until...
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