Mary Lobb
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Mary Frances Vivian Lobb (1878 - 27 March 1939) was an English Land Army volunteer and lifetime companion to the English designer May Morris for 22 years.
Mary Lobb | |
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| Born | 1878 Cornwall |
| Died | 27 March 1939 Kelmscott |
| Partner | May Morris |
Early Life
Mary Francis Vivian Lobb was born in Cornwall in 1878, to Nicholas William Lobb and Emma Vivian Lobb, the second of their five children. They were a Cornish farming family in the Launceston area.[1]
Mary Lobb grew up in Penerthwin and was educated at St. Thomas College in Launceston.
Personal Life
Mary Lobb was a Land Girl, or Land Army volunteer, in the World War I, from 1917. Around this time, Mary met May Morris, who was living at Kelmscott Manor, which had been her father William Morris' country retreat. Mary soon moved in, as gardener. She stayed there, though they had an unlikely looking friendship. Evelyn Waugh described Lobb as a 'hermaphrodite' and George Bernard Shaw described her 'uneducated and very rough.' She traveled for years with May Morris through Europe, as May Morris's journals reveal, including a visit to Wales.
In 1928, she "lodged two patents for rubber hoof pads for horses".[1]
May Morris died in 1938, leaving £12,000 to Mary Lobb and tenure of Kelmscott Manor, where Lobb remained. Lobb donated the jewellery that Morris had left to her to The National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.
Death
Mary Lobb died in 1839. She was cremated; her wish was for her ashes to be "scattered on a Cornish Moor preferably Bosporthennis Manor".[2] She left her notebooks to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
References
- ^ a b Evans, Simon. "The Eclectic Collection of Miss M.F.V. Lobb" (PDF). National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10/06/2021.
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- "Kelmscott Manor, Miss Lobb and me" https://blog.library.wales/kelmscott-manor-miss-lobb-and-me/
- Evans, Simon, 'The Eclectic Collection of Miss M.F.V. Lobb,' https://www.library.wales/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/amdanom_ni/cylchgrawn_llgc/cgr_erth_XXXVI_rhif4_2017_2.pdf
- Londraville, Janis (1997). On poetry, painting, and politics: the letters of May Morris and John Quinn. Selinsgrove [Pa.]: Susquehanna University Press. p. 27.
- https://whichmuseum.co.uk/england/kelmscott/kelmscott-manor/exhibitions/mary-lobb-from-cornwall-to-kelmscott-a-life-revealed
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206364451/mary-francis_vivian-lobb
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/journal-reveals-wilderness-years-of-artist-may-morris-06ldc3dhj
- https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/collection/search-the-collection-65/search/mary-lobb