Patience Strong

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Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a

Winifred May married Frederick Arnold Williams, an architect, in 1931. They enjoyed a happy, childless marriage until he died in 1965. Two years later she married Guy Cushing, a retired buyer for a departmental store. He died in 1979. Winifred was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1970. She died at her home in Sedlescombe, Sussex.

Selected bibliography

• Quiet Corner (1936)
• Quiet Thoughts (1937)
• Quiet Corner Reflections (1938)
• A Christmas Garland (1948)
• The Harvest Of Dreams (1948)
• Wayside Glory (1948)
• The Patience Strong Bedside Book (1953)
• "Beyond the Rainbow" (1957)
• The Blessings of the Years (1963)
• Come Happy Day (1966)
• Give me a Quiet Corner (1972)
• A Joy Forever (1973)
• With a Poem in My Pocket (Autobiography, 1981)
• Poems from the Fighting Forties (1982)
• Fifty Golden Years (1985, to commemorate her fiftieth anniversary as Patience Strong)
• Tapestries of Time (1991)

References

• "POEMS BY PATIENCE STRONG". 2005. Origins of Nations Research Project. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
• Autobiography, With a Poem in My Pocket. Frederick Muller Ltd.
  ISBN 0-584-10613-0
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