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Client 40 Study Print 301, Charlotte Whitney Allen and Atkinson Allen/Fletcher Steele
No full textSteele, Fletcher, 1885-1971. Fletcher Steel Manuscript Collection. 1911-1969. Client 40. Study Print.View of property showing Lachaise sculpture, stone garden walk, terrace and pool.Archived web conten
Valerie E. Fletcher
No full textVal was born at the old Darwin Hospital in 1923. She is the daughter of Ormond Harold Edward George Snell, who came to Darwin in 1912 to build the Myilly Point house, and Ivy Mary Allen. They were married in England in 1919. At the tender age of 3, in 1927, Valerie was awarded 2nd prize at the fancy dress ball dressed as a "bluebell"; she entered other fancy dress balls in 1931 and 1932 with little success. In 1931 she was awarded a book at the Sunday School prize day.
"After my secondary education I became a student-teacher in Darwin, taking my examinations from the Queensland Education Department, and 'teaching' at both the Public and the Parap schools as well as taking extra instruction at the Convent. That is how it was here nearly seventy years ago. By the time I left school, war had been declared and there were two busy years with plenty of social activity."
As a trained VAD Val was called up one night, to spend the rest of it in a slit trench near Myilly Point. Rumour had it next day that there had been a reconnaissance activity. Then she was doing her examinations under supervision. A warden came in and said she was to be on the jetty at seven o'clock next morning with no more than a 20 inch suitcase of clothes. "We were evacuated on an American cruise ship that had been in Manilla when it was bombed." (U3A talk, November 2009).
While Val's father is a well documented entity in the Northern Territory for his buildings, mining and other ventures, Val has taken this connection to the NT and has written about the history of the North in her book Value Adding to Northern Territory Copper, 1901-1910.
Valerie was awarded a history doctorate from the University of Queensland on ?Nineteenth Century Railways and the Constitutional Conventions'. Her other areas of research are the building of transcontinental/interstate railways in Australia and the history of the Northern Territory, especially the 1895-1910 period and the Commonwealth takeover of the Territory.
At the age of 86, in November 2009, she gave a talk to U3A on 'Between the wars', this talk gives a small insight into Darwin in those years and a little into the life of Valerie Fletcher.WriterHistoria
Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher of Edinburgh
No full textEliza Fletcher (born Eliza Dawson) (1770–1858) was an English writer, literary patron and supporter of parliamentary reform and liberal politics. Fletcher became a patron of the poets Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, and later in life formed friendships with prominent writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Martineau. After her marriage to politician and electoral reformer Archibald Fletcher in 1791, she became more radical in her political views. This volume, first published in 1874, contains Fletcher's autobiography, edited by her daughter, Lady Mary Richardson. Fletcher describes her life chronologically, providing fascinating detail on her childhood and adolescence, and citing correspondence illustrating her relationships with her friends. She provides sharp observations on political issues and describes the social and literary circles in which she moved, giving valuable information on literary society and politics during the early nineteenth century. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=fletel
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Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Client 40 Slide E3 2004, Charlotte Whitney Allen and Atkinson Allen/Fletcher Steele
No full textEstate: Mrs. Whitney Allen; location: 32 Oliver Street, Rochester, N.Y.Color view of property showing from of the house.Archived web conten
Client 40 Slide E3 2005, Charlotte Whitney Allen and Atkinson Allen/Fletcher Steele
No full textEstate: Mrs. Whitney Allen; location: 32 Oliver Street, Rochester, N.YColor view of property showing saracen tent.Archived web conten
Client 40 Study Print 304, Charlotte Whitney Allen and Atkinson Allen/Fletcher Steele
No full textEstate: Mrs. Whitney Allen; location: 32 Oliver Street, Rochester, N.Y.View of property showing Lachaise sculpture and fountain.Archived web conten
Client 40 Study Print 337, Charlotte Whitney Allen and Atkinson Allen/Fletcher Steele
No full textEstate: Mrs. Whitney Allen; location: 32 Oliver Street, Rochester, N.Y.View of property showing lawn furniture and trees.Archived web conten
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