Lady Constance Lytton by Lyndsey Jenkins

Author:Lyndsey Jenkins [Lyndsey Jenkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849548922
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

There was no keeping her name or her face out of the paper now. The photo of her in the Daily Mirror took up half a page. Beatrice Webb saw her and was moved to write to Betty:

It is magnificent and it is war. That is what I felt when I saw that Lady Constance had been taken up. She has done emphatically the right thing, because she is the right person to do it, with her charm and refinement, and also her delicacy, and last, but not least, her name.13

Emily and Betty were determined to stand by her, as was Neville. ‘Her action is one of real courage and courage is the rarest and noblest of all human qualities. I am sure father would have been proud of her as no-one knew better than he the value of courage,’ he wrote to Edith.

I think also that her action, in view of the natural timidity and delicacy and horror of publicity, will do a great deal for the cause which she has at least. She is so little like the typical tub thumper that her strength at this moment will astonish her friends and enemies and will prove what a splendid thing faith is which overcomes all difficulties.14

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