Moira Verschoyle
Moira Verschoyle | |
|---|---|
| Born | Moira Verschoyle 17 December 1903 Limerick |
| Died | January 1985 Hastings, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Irish |
Moira Hamilton Verschoyle (17 December 1903-January 1985) was an Irish novelist and playwright.[1][2]
Life and career
Born in Limerick and raised in Castle Troy on the banks of the River Shannon, Verschoyle was privately educated by governesses. She was a daughter of Captain Frederick Thomas Verschoyle, who had been a 2nd Brig. South Irish Div. R.A. and was now a Land Agent, and his wife Hilda Caroline Hildyard Blair who was part of the Plantagenet Roll of Blood Royal. Verschoyle had an older brother Frederick and an older sister Hilda. Verschoyle worked on the London stage during and after the Second world war.[3][4][5]
Verschoyle married Mr. Horace de Herziz Smith of Bordighera, Italy, in Penang on 3 April 1922.[6][7] He was an experienced planter in Malaya. As a result she was listed as Moira Hamilton Smith for her second marriage.[8] She returned to the UK within a few years and he later remarried.[9]
While based in Sussex Verscholye married the writer Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode on 16 July 1927 with whom she had 5 children, 4 girls and a boy.[10] Along with the novels and autobiography she produced and the work in theatre, Verschoyle also wrote articles for newspapers.[11] She died in January 1985 in Hastings.[8]
Bibliography
- Children in Love (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1961)
- Daughters of the General (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1963)
- So Long to Wait: an Irish Childhood (London: Geoffrey Bles 1960), autobiography
- ITV play of the week- The Young May Moon (1958)
Further reading
"A LIMERICK CHILDHOOD" (PDF). Limerick city. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
References
- ^ "Moira Verschoyle". Ricorso. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Birth record" (PDF). Https:. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ J. P. Wearing (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-8108-9306-1.
- ^ Jeffrey E. Long (2007). Remembered Childhoods: A Guide to Autobiography and Memoirs of Childhood and Youth. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 76-. ISBN 978-1-59158-174-1.
- ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval (1 May 2013). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume. Heritage Books. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-7884-1872-3.
- ^ "Newspaper Article - WEDDINGS AT PENANG". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 4 April 1922. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Newspaper Article". The Straits Times, 4 April 1922, Page 8. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Clifton RFC History - WW1 - Warren Chetham-Strode". Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Ship Kuala Passenger List" (PDF). Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland. 1976. p. 1166.
- ^ Michael Pierse (14 December 2010). Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin After O'Casey. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 357–. ISBN 978-0-230-31840-3.