![]() ![]() ![]() Most of her friends were unaware that she was ill and Sir John Gielgud was shocked to read news of it in The Times during a matinee performance of Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale'. The Times recorded her death on 14th February, 1952, two days before the state funeral of King George VI, whose life, death and majesty had filled the newspapers that week. Stokes) home, 235 Covington Way, Streatham, London, on 13 February 1952. She died of cancer of the liver at her sister Mary's [Mrs. Her last work, The Singing Sands was found among her papers after her death and was published posthumously. Among her other works are a number of short plays written for broadcasting, and a biography, Claverhouse (1937). Her second last work, The Privateer (1952), was a romantic novel based on the life of the buccaneer Henry Morgan. Her death was especially cruel since it occurred at a time when she was entering on a time of personal freedom. During the last year of her life, when she knew that she was mortally ill, she resolutely avoided all her friends. ![]()
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