Frances Harrod | |
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| Born | Frances Mary Desirée Forbes-Robertson 1866 UK |
| Died | 23 May 1956 London, England |
| Occupation | artist, novelist, actor |
| Spouse | Henry Dawes Harrod (m. 1900; died 1919) |
| Children | Roy Harrod |
| Relatives | Johnston Forbes-Robertson (brother) Norman Forbes-Robertson (brother) Eric Forbes-Robertson (brother) Meriel Forbes (great-niece) |
Frances Forbes-Robertson (after marriage, Frances Harrod; 1866 – 23 May 1956) was a British artist, novelist, and actor. Among her publications can be counted The Devil's Pronoun (1894), Odd Stories (1897), The Potentate (1898), Mother Earth (1902), The Hidden Model (1902), What We Dream (1903), Trespass (1928), and Stained Wings (1930).
Biography
Frances Mary Desirée Forbes-Robertson was born in 1866.[1] She was the youngest child of John Forbes-Robertson,[2][1] a theatre critic and journalist from Aberdeen, and his wife Frances. The eldest of the eleven children in the family was Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the actor. Two other brothers, Ian Forbes-Robertson (1859–1936), and Norman Forbes-Robertson (1858–1932) also became actors, and a third, Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865–1935) became a painter. She was the sister-in-law of the actress Maxine Elliott, and the great-aunt of actress Meriel Forbes (granddaughter of her brother Norman), who married actor Ralph Richardson. Forbes-Robertson was educated in convents in France and Italy.[2]
She married Henry Dawes Harrod, F.S.A. [2] in 1900, and was the mother of Roy Harrod, the economist.[3]
Forbes-Robertson (known also by her married surname, Harrod) was the author of The Potentate, Mother Earth, The Hidden Model, Odd Stories, The Devil's Pronoun, What We Dream, Taming of the Ponte, Trespass and Stained Wings. She also published other works of fiction, such as those contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, Westminster Gazette, and The Pall Mall Magazine.[2][4] [5]
Selected works
As Frances Forbes-Robertson
- The Devil's Pronoun, 1894
- Odd Stories, 1897
- The Potentate, 1898
- " The Wanton "
- " The Horrible Man"
As Frances Harrod
- Mother Earth, 1902
- The Hidden Model, 1902
- What We Dream, 1903
- Trespass, 1928
- Stained Wings, 1930
References
- 1 2 Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (1 January 2005). "Harrod, Frances". The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001. ISBN 9780198117605. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 Burnand 1908, pp. 187–88.
- ↑ Durlauf (ed.) & Blume (ed.) 2016, p. 836.
- 1 2 "Mrs Frances Harrod". The Guardian. 25 May 1956. p. 2. Retrieved 8 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Halkett 1904, pp. 33–39.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (1908). The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook (Public domain ed.). Burns & Oates.- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Halkett, George R., ed. (1904). ""An Episode in a Country House", by Frances Harrod (Frances Forbes Robertson).". The Pall Mall Magazine. Vol. 32 (Public domain ed.). London.
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Bibliography
- Durlauf (ed.), Steven N.; Blume (ed.), Lawrence E. (18 May 2016). "Harrod, Roy Forbes (1900-1978)". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-58802-2.
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External links
- Works by or about Frances Forbes-Robertson at Internet Archive
- Review of The Potentate in The Sketch, vol. 22, June 15, 1898