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Countess of Warwick (1889)

Portrait of Frances Evelyn Greville, Countess of Warwick (1889). My restoration and colorization of Herbert Rose Barraud´s photograph.

 

"Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard (10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well-off in education, housing, employment, and pay. She established colleges for the education of women in agriculture and market gardening, first in Reading, then in Studley. She established a needlework school and employment scheme in Essex as well as using her ancestral homes to host events and schemes for the benefit of her tenants and workers. Greville was a long-term confidant or mistress to the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII."

(Wikipedia)

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Uploaded on April 26, 2023