Can I draw people's attention to a wonderful new biography of Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Arthur's sister, who was a remarkable woman whose story deserves to be better known.  She is slightly inaccurately billed on the website as 'co-founder of the Women's Co-operative Movement'.  She was not in fact a founder, but was for 30 years General Secretary of the Women's Cooperative Guild, and an extremely significant campaigner across a range of areas - fighting to gain a political voice for working-class women in particular.  The new book is a fascinating read - it does touch on her closeness to Arthur and differences with Sylvia, her important role in relation to her nephews, and I think helps explain the complex mixture of family loyalties around the boys during and after the deaths of their parents, but much more than that it is filling a really significant gap in the picture we have of the world they were brought up in, by giving proper weight to the achievements of another highly impressive member of the family, whom they knew well.  Published by Merlin, the book is called Margaret Llewelyn Davies - With Women for a New World, by Ruth Cohen. 

Hi again Stacy

I am coming to London to watch tonight's performance with my mother and sister.  I look forward to it very much, and hope to get a chance to chat with you afterwards.

Peter

I just heard about your play, Stacy, from my sister in London, and hope very much to get to see it at some point.  What has been your main source for it? I wonder if you have had contact with any of the family in researching for it?  My grandmother, Theodora Llewelyn Davies was a first cousin of Peter's, and I have always been very interested in all of the stories around him, since reading tearfully through our copy of 'The Morgue' as a child...

Peter Wynne-Willson
Birmingham
www.peterww.co.uk