Kathleen Curzon-Herrick

Kathleen Curzon-Herrick
Born28 March 1893 Edit this on Wikidata
Died8 February 1965 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 71)
Spouse(s)William Montagu Curzon-Herrick Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)

Lady Maud Kathleen Cairnes Plantagenet Hastings Curzon-Herrick (28 March 1893 – 8 February 1965) was a British novelist.

Curzon-Herrick published two novels, the first under the name Maud Cairnes. Strange Journey (1935) is the story of a body swap between an aristocrat, Lady Elizabeth, and a middle-class mother, Polly Wilkinson. It was reissued in 2022 as part of the British Library Women Writers series.[1] Her second novel was The Disappearing Duchess (1939), published under the name Lady Herrick.[2]

Biography

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Lady Kathleen Hastings was born on 28 March 1893, the daughter of Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Margaret Wilson. She married William Montagu Curzon-Herrick on 28 July 1916 and they lived on the manor he inherited, Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire.[3]

Lady Kathleen Curzon-Herrick died on 8 February 1965.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Riveting Reissues." The Express on Sunday, Nov 13, 2022, pp. 39.
  2. ^ Rock, James A. (1979). Who goes there : a bibliographic dictionary. Internet Archive. Bloomington, Ind. : J.A. Rock. ISBN 978-0-918736-04-8.
  3. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 1987.