Cicely Veronica Wedgwood – SIGNED Letter
£125.00
A fine autograph letter from Cicely Veronica Wedgwood to E. Stanley Jones, in pencil dated 5 October 1987, written in blue ink on light blue writing paper with central horizontal fold, with additional fold to top edge.
In full: ‘Whitegate, Alciston, Polegate BN26 6UN Oct. 5th 1987 Dear Mr Jones, Thank you for your letter. I am so glad that you and your wife enjoyed my TV interview. I am very pleased too that you read and like my books. I am enclosing a list of my published books, but some of them may now be out of print. I enclose a small photograph but I am afraid it was taken some time ago! If you would care, as you suggest, to send a small donation to the RSPCC that would be very kind. The address is 1 Riding House Street, London W1 – or you may have a local branch. With best wishes, yours sincerely C. Veronica Wedgwood.’
Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) was a distinguished British historian known for her vivid narrative histories of seventeenth-century Europe. Wedgwood was born in Stocksfield, Northumberland, on 20 July 1910. She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Bt, a railway executive, and his wife Iris Wedgwood (née Pawson), a novelist and travel writer. Her brother was the politician and industrialist Sir John Wedgwood. Veronica Wedgwood was a great-great-great-granddaughter of the potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood. Her uncle was the politician Josiah Wedgwood, later 1st Baron Wedgwood. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford, she gained wide acclaim for works such as The Thirty Years War and studies of the English Civil War. Her clear, literary style made complex history accessible to general readers. She was elected to the British Academy and was made a Dame in 1968.
Wedgwood was a lesbian: her partner of almost seventy years, Jacqueline Hope-Wallace (died 2011), was a fellow graduate of Lady Margaret Hall and had a significant career in the British civil service. Wedgwood and Hope-Wallace together owned a country house called Whitegate, near Polegate in Sussex. In her last years, Wedgwood suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and she died on 9 March 1997 at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
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A fine autograph letter from Cicely Veronica Wedgwood to E. Stanley Jones, in pencil dated 5 October 1987, written in blue ink on light blue writing paper with central horizontal fold, with additional fold to top edge.
In full: ‘Whitegate, Alciston, Polegate BN26 6UN Oct. 5th 1987 Dear Mr Jones, Thank you for your letter. I am so glad that you and your wife enjoyed my TV interview. I am very pleased too that you read and like my books. I am enclosing a list of my published books, but some of them may now be out of print. I enclose a small photograph but I am afraid it was taken some time ago! If you would care, as you suggest, to send a small donation to the RSPCC that would be very kind. The address is 1 Riding House Street, London W1 – or you may have a local branch. With best wishes, yours sincerely C. Veronica Wedgwood.’
Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) was a distinguished British historian known for her vivid narrative histories of seventeenth-century Europe. Wedgwood was born in Stocksfield, Northumberland, on 20 July 1910. She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Bt, a railway executive, and his wife Iris Wedgwood (née Pawson), a novelist and travel writer. Her brother was the politician and industrialist Sir John Wedgwood. Veronica Wedgwood was a great-great-great-granddaughter of the potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood. Her uncle was the politician Josiah Wedgwood, later 1st Baron Wedgwood. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford, she gained wide acclaim for works such as The Thirty Years War and studies of the English Civil War. Her clear, literary style made complex history accessible to general readers. She was elected to the British Academy and was made a Dame in 1968.
Wedgwood was a lesbian: her partner of almost seventy years, Jacqueline Hope-Wallace (died 2011), was a fellow graduate of Lady Margaret Hall and had a significant career in the British civil service. Wedgwood and Hope-Wallace together owned a country house called Whitegate, near Polegate in Sussex. In her last years, Wedgwood suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and she died on 9 March 1997 at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
