Word: perdita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete play of Shakspere's, The Winter's Tale, basks in the the golden glow of the master's genius; the sweet country air runs all through it, and few, if any, of his plays leave a pleasanter picture in one's memory. "As long as men can think, Perdita shall brighten and sweeten, Hermione ennoble, mens' minds and lives...
Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London...
...fell in love with her immediately, swept her off her feet. But their engagement grew longer & longer. When he got a flatteringly good job in Zurich Clive wanted Rachel to marry him and go there, but she refused to leave her mother, broke off the engagement. When he married Perdita instead, Rachel thought she could not stand it, but soon found her Mission made up for everything. As it must to all men & women, Death came at last to the unconscious hulk of her mother. Then Rachel was out of a job, but she soon found another and settled down...