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Lady Winifred Fortescue
LADY WINIFRED FORTESCUE (7 February 1888 - 9 April 1951) was born in a Suffolk rectory, the third child of a country rector and connected, on her mother’s side, to the Fighting Battyes of India.
A...view moreLADY WINIFRED FORTESCUE (7 February 1888 - 9 April 1951) was born in a Suffolk rectory, the third child of a country rector and connected, on her mother’s side, to the Fighting Battyes of India.
At age 17 she decided to try to earn her own living, and went on the stage, performing in Sir Herbert Tree’s company, and later starring in Jerome K. Jerome’s The Passing of the Third Floor Back.
In 1914 she married John Fortescue, the King’s Librarian and Archivist and famous historian of the British Army, gave up her career on the stage, and began a successful interior decorating and dress designing business until illness forced her to close her company down. She then began writing, for Punch, the Daily Chronicle, the Evening News, finally inaugurating and editing a Woman’s Page for the Morning Post.
In the early 1930s, John and Winifred Fortescue, now Sir John and Lady Fortescue, moved to Provence and there she wrote her famous and bestselling Perfume From Provence.
She died at Opio, Provence, in April 1951.view less
Books by Lady Winifred Fortescue
Perfume From Provence Sunset House: More Perfume From Provence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There’s Rosemary…There’s Rue Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trampled Lilies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5