Last Friday, we published a sombre but moving post entitled A Leeds Schoolgirl Reflects on WW1. Now, blogger Maureen Jessop has sent a more lighthearted little update our way.
Take a look at the photo below (which, like last week’s poem, comes from the Leeds Girls’ High School magazine) and see if you can work out which of the pupils is playing the ‘canary’ in the school production of The Birds of Aristophanes…
Found her? That’s our poet, Ethelwynne Stewart McDowall. Click for a closer look, and do let us know if you think you’ve spotted her!
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Which one was the canary, Ethelwynne Stewart McDowall? Also, are there any other known photos of her? She later became the author Gay Taylor and my small press is reissuing her 1930 novel No Goodness in the Worm.
Thank you,
Rick Schober
rick@toughpoets.com