Sheila Macbeth, Parc Monceau, Paris

Category

Library Item

Item no

41332

Title

Sheila Macbeth, Parc Monceau, Paris

Description

Photograph of Sheila Macbeth taken in the Parc Monceau, Paris 1908.

Page from Sheila Macbeth Mitchell Scrapbook (1890-1920), who served as a nurse during World War One and who travelled on the H.S. Britannic final ill-fated voyage.

Artist / maker

Mitchell, Sheila Macbeth

Date

1908

Size

35.5 x 26.5 cm

Type

Document; Photograph

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell

In 1908 aged 18, Sheila went with her elder sister Flora to live in Paris for a year. Here she attended the Cours de Musique, a music course run by Mlle [ Miss] Yvonne Galliet.

Sheila also started to get interested in golf around this time. In her memoirs, she notes:
"Flora & I joined the Surrey County Golf Club as well as one at Purley Downs & until Flora married, Father let us have the use of a car & chauffeur - but when she went & I was the only golfer - I had to go by train & it made a hole in my Dress allowance of £50 per annum as I had to take caddies & have new balls when playing matches".

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