tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post817860837896385832..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: The rest of the storyFurrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-71488647449637768302022-11-27T02:19:12.075-08:002022-11-27T02:19:12.075-08:00After reading this blog and comments about Edith M...After reading this blog and comments about Edith May Mayer-Nixson, I went hunting on Ancestry. I found that she and her husband were separated by 1935 and I found Edith May on two crew lists entering the USA. One list was 1946 and it gives her age as 55 and lists her as having 10 years' experience at sea. She and her husband went to live in Valparaiso after they married, so Edith May is almost certainly the author of the two-part article "An Englishwoman in South America" that appeared in Wide World Magazine in 1916 & 1917. It was advertised for sale online.Anne Wadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-24140468004219097772022-11-27T00:14:08.878-08:002022-11-27T00:14:08.878-08:00Just a few snippets - Edith May Bennett married Go...Just a few snippets - Edith May Bennett married Godfrey Victor Mayer Nixson early in 1913 and they departed Liverpool for Valparaiso on April 17th. Two and a half years later they returned to England with their son. Given this link, I think she was almost certainly the M. Mayer-Nixson who wrote "An Englishwoman in South America." for the Wide World Magazine, in 1916.<br />I have doubts about the marriage ending, because she was named in his probate record.Anne Wadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-72434803213389827872017-12-10T03:07:22.263-08:002017-12-10T03:07:22.263-08:00Dear Scott,
I know Maida M Nixson's book, '...Dear Scott,<br />I know Maida M Nixson's book, 'Ring twice' very well because I'm an expert on ship's stewardesses. I've read it a million times and it's brill. (You can buy it online for £5 by the way, I saw just now). She made her first voyage in 1937, when it seems like she was in her 30s There are pix of her in it. So I don't think she is also EM Mayer Nixson, who would have been in her late 50s by then.Dr Jo Stanley, FRHistS.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16615448959846276053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-1425303138646873182016-12-22T06:14:19.844-08:002016-12-22T06:14:19.844-08:00Thank you for your comment, Nicholas. I'll up...Thank you for your comment, Nicholas. I'll update my database and my list accordingly. Great to have some additional information about Maisie. If you think of anything else, feel free to email. Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-60179390165270953992016-12-22T06:12:12.294-08:002016-12-22T06:12:12.294-08:00Thank you, Dorian. I'm so sorry I didn't ...Thank you, Dorian. I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment when you first posted it. Peggy's letters sound fascinating--have you ever thought of trying to get them published?Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-63812778445324574862016-12-15T10:14:23.517-08:002016-12-15T10:14:23.517-08:00Hello Scott,
I came across your page while Googlin...Hello Scott,<br />I came across your page while Googling "Maisie Nixson". Maisie was my great-aunt, but she died in 1954 before I was born. She seems to have had little connection with my grandmother (her elder sister) and my father and his sister, both now deceased, hardly knew her. Maisie Bennett was not a pseudonym; it was her real name. At some point she married Godfrey Nixson - with an s - but the marriage seems not to have lasted long although they did have a son. The three books hat you list are indeed the only ones that she wrote. Ring Twice for the Stewardess was published in 1954, the year of her death. I have a copy which I found with some difficulty (in New Zealand, via Abe Books) over ten years ago. It is a very readable and remarkably frank account of her life as a stewardess before, during and after WW2. I do not have and have never read her other two books.Nicholas Hutchingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-22316689520185515632016-10-03T08:42:02.525-07:002016-10-03T08:42:02.525-07:00Hello Scott,
I am the great-granddaughter of Josep...Hello Scott,<br />I am the great-granddaughter of Josephine Webling Watts, Peggy Webling's sister. I have hundreds of letters written by her and her sisters to my great-grandmother over 40 years. The Weblings are a truly fascinating family. Alas Peggy's books are, in my opinion, extremely dated today; but her letters are far more interesting, chronicling as they do the personal lives of Londoners from the First to Second World Wars, along with the social history of feminism (the sisters were ardent suffragettes and women's rights advocates).<br />By the way, Lucy was the only one of the sisters to go on to a stage career as a young adult, after playing Little Lord Fauntleroy (in addition to dramatic recitals) as a child. So you are right that Centre Stage was based on her own experiences. <br />You can see some pictures of the Webling sisters if you search under "Ethel Webling Miniatures".<br />Thanks for your post about my great grandaunt.<br />Best wishes,<br />Dorian Gieseler GreenbaumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-50028881742668271982015-10-31T09:50:00.817-07:002015-10-31T09:50:00.817-07:00Nice updates!
A quick note on Sybil Haddock, an...Nice updates! <br /><br />A quick note on Sybil Haddock, and thanks to John for his fine detective work.. I found an ebay advertisement for "That Orfull Family" with a scan of pp 44-45. My "Nancy Runs the Show" is definitely a reissue of "That Orfull Family", reset and with the odd minor correction. I'd guess the other Orfull book became a Nancy book too.<br /><br />As for Menna Gallie, I recommend her "The Small Mine" as a vivid picture of South Wales mining valley culture and characters. I just glimpsed the last of that way of life when visiting my grandparents in the Fifties. Gallie wrote a similarly vivid but non-fiction booklet about Welsh-speaking North Pembrokeshire: "Little England's Other Half", also recommended. <br /><br />Best wishes and thanks again,<br />David ReddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-90964484289374253512015-07-21T15:41:00.433-07:002015-07-21T15:41:00.433-07:00Just wanted to tell you all thanks to this blog, ...Just wanted to tell you all thanks to this blog, I have just started reading Nan Fairbrother's "An English Year." Liking it very much - as I so often have when Scott has led me to a new writer.<br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-54337386064236379432015-07-21T13:53:07.562-07:002015-07-21T13:53:07.562-07:00No worries, Ruth. I could easily have been wrong, ...No worries, Ruth. I could easily have been wrong, so I'm glad you were double-checking. I think I'm starting to get it, but at the thought of, say, third cousins four times removed my mind still boggles. Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-17658294851331433172015-07-20T02:59:38.395-07:002015-07-20T02:59:38.395-07:00Sorry, just looked at the relationships to Charles...Sorry, just looked at the relationships to Charles again, and you are indeed correct! [covered in embarrassment]Abbeybufohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09943340447141277258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-46915272937254715312015-07-20T02:56:51.916-07:002015-07-20T02:56:51.916-07:00I think it makes them second cousins, if Charles D...I think it makes them second cousins, if Charles Dickens is great-grandparent to both ... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Cousin_chart for more info and explanation within the article the chart is embedded in.Abbeybufohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09943340447141277258noreply@blogger.com