Author: Harold Begbie
This photograph shows Harold Begbie with Eleanor, the last of his four daughters, in 1913. There can be no doubt that the touching and minutely observed description of the baby Leonore in his 1913 novel Rising Dawn is a portrait of his own daughter Eleanor.
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William Owen Lester Smith
W. O. Lester Smith was born in Montgomeryshire in 1888, and educated at the King's School, Chester, and Merton College, Oxford. After teaching in a Grammar and a Public School, he served as an assistant education officer in Warwickshire and Lancashire. He was for seven years Chief Education Officer ...
