Harriet Fortescue:
wife of David Urquhart
< Quotations and photograph: A Memoir of Mrs Urquhart / Mrs Bishop.
— London : Kegan Paul, 1897
David Urquhart would have been quite unable to organise the smooth running of the Foreign Affairs Committees without the support of Harriet, his gifted wife. Apart from her many secretarial tasks, she could always be relied upon to calm and sympathetically smoothe the many relationships which were ruffled by her pedantic, sometimes stubborn, and often unforgiving, husband. But she was a clear-thinking political writer who published articles under the pseudonym 'Caritas'. According to her biographer, Mrs Bishop:
Half her articles in his
paper, the Free press, and her many other writings were by him, and
half of his by her.
While, according to her eldest son, David Urquhart (Jnr),
the argumentative work, the collating of
extracts from despatches, treaties, &c, was done by her first, and then
my father dictated the introduction and conclusion.
This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found below:
Introduction. Part 2: Why should the Turkish bath interest us?
The Victorian Turkish Bath Movement. Pt 3: The FACs & the Free press
Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 1: introduction
David and Harriet Urquhart: a team
Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 2: the first Victorian Turkish baths
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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