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Louisa Young. A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
ONE Motherless Daughter, Victorian Child
TWO The Road to Hell
THREE A Badly Dressed Virginal Anglaise in Paris
FOUR Babies Are Being Born
FIVE Isadora’s Baby
SIX Vagabonding in Greece
SEVEN Frighteningly in Love with Captain Scott
EIGHT Darling I Will be Good When We ’re Married
NINE Married Life
TEN Going South
ELEVEN At Opposite Ends of the Earth
TWELVE Daddy Won’t Come Back
THIRTEEN Living in Ignorance
FOURTEEN ‘Got My Wireless’
FIFTEEN The First War
SIXTEEN Sculpting and Dancing
SEVENTEEN Second Husband, Second Son
EIGHTEEN The Thirties
NINETEEN The Second War and the End
Postscript
Images
Biographical Details
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
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In 1892 Great-Uncle William died. The house in Edinburgh was sold and the proceeds divided among his fifty-four nephews and nieces. Each of the Bruce children got an allowance: Kathleen’s was £72 per annum, to pay for everything: education, clothes et al. Douglas, now twenty-five, took over as nominal head of the family, and Kathleen went to live with Elma and her husband Canon Keating (who wore pincenez). Cousin Willie described their household after a visit in 1892:
Found them pretty gloomy … the gas was not turned on at the main so they borrowed a lamp from the Theological Hall, but like the Biblical virgins’ it hadn’t got no oil so ‘they sat in solemn silence in a dull dark etc.’, cussing inwardly at each other. It was too dark for either of them to reach the poker otherwise there might have been ‘another ’orrible murder’. They’re a rum couple …
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