List of Illustrations
Fig. 1. |
Nottingham Place, Marylebone, London. Photograph: the author (2015). |
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Fig. 2. |
Newson Garrett, by John Pettie (1886). Courtesy of Hew Stevenson. Photograph: Hew Stevenson (c. 2015). |
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Fig. 3. |
Louisa Garrett, by James Elder Christie (1888). Courtesy of Snape Parish Council. Photograph: Matt Jolly (2019). |
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Fig. 4. |
Snape Maltings today. The frontage has barely been altered since Newson Garrett’s day. Photograph: the author (2019). |
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Fig. 5. |
Garrett family group at Gower House, 1907. Left to right: Geoffrey, Sam, Grace Mallock, Clara, Godfrey Garrett Smith (a cousin), Margery. Photograph: family archives (1907). |
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Fig. 6. |
Margery as a girl. Photograph: family archives (c. 1895). |
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Fig. 7. |
Margery as a young woman, around the time of her engagement to Edward. Photograph: family archives (c. 1910). |
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Fig. 8. |
Mary Jones with seven of her eight children. ‘Puppy’ is the baby, Petica leans against Mary and Edward is on the far right. Photograph: family archives (c. 1888). |
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Fig. 9. |
Edward Jones with Charles. Photograph: family archives (1912). |
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Fig. 10. |
Edward’s passport, 1914. Photograph: Sam Garrett-Jones (2010). |
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Fig. 11 |
Dominick Spring Rice, 1932. Photograph: Lafayette (1932). © National Portrait Gallery, London. |
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Fig. 12. |
Birth control clinic in a caravan, est. by Marie Stopes. Photograph (late 1920’s). Wellcome Images, CC-BY 4.0 |
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Eric Ravilious (1903–1942), River Thames at Hammersmith (1933). Watercolour and pencil on paper. Image Towner Eastbourne. At the time this painting was done, Margery, the Mitchison family and other friends were living near the Thames on the Chiswick-Hammersmith borders. |
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Fig. 14. |
Iken Hall, c. 1918. Photograph from the Sudbourne Estate sale brochure. Courtesy of Ben Johnston. |
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Fig. 15. |
Margery’s map for visitors to Iken, 1937. Photograph: the author (2020). |
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Fig. 16. |
Annabel Slyboots Lee. Photograph: the author (2016). |
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Fig. 17. |
Margery, her children and her two eldest grandchildren, Iken, c. 1939. Left to right: Margery, Cecil, Maurice, Charles, Susan, Stephen, Ronald, Paula. Photograph: family archives (c. 1939). |
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Fig. 18. |
Orford and Sudbourne battle area. Ordnance Survey Second World War map, 1940, sheet 87. OS © Crown copyright (1940). Courtesy of Brian Boulton. |
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Fig. 19. |
Margery with her nursery children. Photograph: family archives (c. 1941). |
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Fig. 20. |
Page from the Iken visitors’ book. Photograph: the author (2016). |
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Fig. 21. |
Iken oak with grandchildren. Photograph: Ronald Garrett-Jones (late 1950s). |
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Fig. 22. |
Margery with her Land Rover. Photograph: Francis Minns (1953). Courtesy of Julian Minns. |
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Fig. 23. |
The Prince of Crim Tartary’s boots (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green). Photograph: the author (2011). |
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Fig. 24. |
Ian Macleod, Minister of Health, visits the North Kensington clinic in 1955. Margery is on the right and the mayor of Hammersmith in the centre. Photograph: Wellcome Collection SA/FPA/NK 237 (1955). |
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The map made by Margery when she moved from Iken to Shades in 1956. Photograph: the author (2020). |
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Fig. 26. |
Margery on top of Orford Castle. Photograph: Sam Garrett-Jones (late 1960s). |
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Fig. 27 |
Margery’s handwriting, which retained its characteristic vigour into her old age. ‘Isabella’ is likely a slip of memory for ‘Annabel’. Photograph: the author (2017). |