Susan Buchan
Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor Caroline Stuart-Wortley |
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Susan Charlotte Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
Life
Susan was born in
She was a childhood friend of Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), and they remained friendly, although not always close, in adult life. The Hogarth Press, run by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, published a work of Lady Tweedsmuir's in 1935 and she was the recipient of one of the last letters Virginia Woolf wrote.[5]
Her time as Vicereine of Canada is remembered for her energetic relief work. Her library project of gathering books in Eastern Canada for impoverished western communities and sending train carloads of them west was the foundation for many public libraries across the prairies.[6]
Her interest in literary education influenced the establishment of the Governor General's Awards, for many years Canada's primary literary awards, and the library at Rideau Hall.[7] Following her husband's death she returned to Britain, where she wrote several more novels, a series of memoirs, and a biography of her husband.
She died at Burford, near Oxford, on 22 March 1977 aged 94 and was buried beside her husband in the churchyard at Elsfield.[8]
Bibliography
- The Sword of State: Wellington after Waterloo (1928)
- Jim and the Dragon (1929)
- Lady Louisa Stuart: Her Memories and Portraits (1932)
- The Vision at the Inn: A Play in One Act (1933)
- Funeral March of a Marionette: Charlotte of Albany (1935)
- The Scent of Water (1937)
- Mice on Horseback (1940)
- Canada in The British Commonwealth in Pictures series (1941)
- The Cat's Grandmother (1942)
- The Silver Ball (1944)
- John Buchan by His Wife and Friends (1947)
- The Rainbow through the Rain (1950)
- The Lilac and the Rose (1952)
- The Freedom of the Garden (1952)
- A Winter Bouquet (1954)
- Cousin Harriet (1957)
- Dashbury Park (1959)
- A Stone in the Pool (1961)
- The Edwardian Lady (1966)
References
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
- ^ a b Office of the Governor General of Canada. "Governor General: Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield". Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir". Library Thing. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
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- ^ Nigel Nicolson, Ed, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, London, the Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, letters number 30, 1781, 1786, 2708, 2953, 2980, 3033, 3040, 3041, 3064, 3390, 3394, 3427, 3705.
- ^ Little, G. (2012). "The People Must Have Plenty of Books: Lady Tweedsmuir's Prairie Library Scheme, 1936-40". Library and Information History Journal, 28(2), 103–116.
- ^ John Buchan profile, online-literature.com; accessed 3 April 2016.
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