Honor Brooke

Honor Brooke (1861-1940) was the eldest daughter of Stopford Brooke (chaplain) and Emma Beaumont. She was born in London and grew up at 1 Manchester Square where her father kept an open house, with guests including William Morris, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gertrude Bell, William Holman Hunt and Edvard Grieg, with whom she discussed her love of the work of Henrik Ibsen.[1] She was photographed as a child, together with two of her sisters, by Lewis Carroll.[2] Honor Brooke was friends with Eleanor Marx and Edith Ellis and joined them in speaking to the Silvertown strikers at an open-air meeting on 29 November 1889.[3] She was a member of the Christian Socialist movement and was involved with philanthropic work among working class communities in London, setting up the Children's Holiday Fund for Marylebone in 1883 which organised countryside holidays for children from London slums, and the Honor Club for Working Girls, a social club initially based in Fitzroy Square which offered cookery lessons, entertainments and refreshments for young women after their working day.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Carley, Lionel (2006). Edvard Grieg in London. Boydell Press. p. 137. ISBN 1843832070.
  2. ↑ "Lewis Carroll Holiday Album: Princeton University Library".
  3. ↑ Hugh Stevens, Caroline Howlett (2011). Modernist Sexualities. Manchester University Press. p. 36. ISBN 0719051614.
  4. ↑ Women's Mission. A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women. Arranged and Edited by Baroness Burdett-Coutts, edited by Angela Burdett-Coutts, p. 32; Girls Club News June 1912.
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