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GCPP Stephen 3

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Notes from Constance Louisa Maynard, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Stephen 3
Scope and Contents Covering letter (dated 3 March 1925) and 21 page memoir in which she mentions seeing Hilaire Belloc and his sister Marie as 6/7 year old children at Mme Bodichon’s house in Sussex, and describes them as ‘clever and amusing beyond words to tell’.Her time at Hitchin coincided with the rise of Darwinism, and lectures on the new science of evolution by Professor Huxley. Having being brought up as a strict evangelist, she found the 'condition of religious thought' and the discussions this...
Dates: 1925