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Writer and Viceregal Consort of Canada; wife of 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; daughter of Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor
Sitter in 6 portraits 
Writer on mineralogy and geology; second wife of John Varley
Sitter in 1 portrait 
Novelist, philanthropist and political lobbyist; wife of (Thomas) Humphry Ward
Sitter in 32 portraits 
Women writers
153 People in group
1863-1945
Novelist and playwright; former wife of John Armstrong Chanler, and later wife of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy
Sitter in 5 portraits
Novelist and playwright; former wife of John Armstrong Chanler, and later wife of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy
Sitter in 5 portraits
Susan Charlotte (née Grosvenor), Baroness Tweedsmuir
1882-1977Writer and Viceregal Consort of Canada; wife of 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; daughter of Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor
Sitter in 6 portraits
Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry)
1800-1860Writer on mineralogy and geology; second wife of John Varley
Sitter in 1 portrait
Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold)
1851-1920Novelist, philanthropist and political lobbyist; wife of (Thomas) Humphry Ward
Sitter in 32 portraits
1947-
Novelist and Conservative politician; privy councillor and MP for Maidstone
Sitter in 1 portrait
Novelist and Conservative politician; privy councillor and MP for Maidstone
Sitter in 1 portrait
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