EXTRAS
The funeral card of Frances Chesterton:
OF YOUR CHARITY
Pray for the repose of the Soul
Of
Frances Chesterton
Who, fortified by the Rites of the Church,
Died on
December 12, 1938
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Behold, the Lord cometh, the Prince of the
Kings of the earth: blessed are they that are
ready to go forth and meet Him.
Advent Antiphon
Eternal rest give unto her, O Lord, and let
Perpetual light shine upon her.
May she Rest in Peace. Amen.
Obituaries:
The London Catholic Herald
Frances, Wife of G.K. Chesterton
By Maisie Ward (Mrs. F. J. Sheed)
Mrs. Chesterton died at Beaconsfield on Monday, December 12, 1938
Frances Chesterton was the eldest daughter of the late George William Blogg, a diamond merchant, of Albemarle Street. Douglas Jerrold, the famous editor of Punch, was her great-great-uncle.1
She was educated at the first kindergarten in England, started on German lines, then at Notting Hill High School; finally at St. Stephen’s College, Windsor, the school of an Anglo-Catholic Convent.
G.K. Chesterton speaks in his autobiography of her being sent to this last school as an accident. It was one of those human accidents that God seems to take delight in designing. For the atmosphere and the ideas in the convent were utterly congenial to this girl, coming from agnostic surroundings, and became the ideas and the atmosphere of her life.
Chesterton confesses his amazement when they first met at discovering that she not only professed, but also practiced a religion. Clearly enough this constituted part of the charm and force of personality, which he was not alone in recognizing, and which he has conveyed in his autobiography as could no other.
“A QUEER CARD”
“She was a queer card,” he says, when talking of their first meeting in the “fantastic suburb” of Bedford Park, where the couple talked about art and talked about religion and followed crazes and intellectual lectures.
She wore a green velvet dress barred with grey fur, which I should have called artistic, but that she hated all the talk about art; and she had an attractive face, which I should have called elvish, but that she hated all the talk about elves. But what was arresting and almost blood-curdling about her in that social atmosphere, was not so much that she hated it, as that she was entirely unaffected by it.
She never knew what was meant by being “under the influence” of Yeats or Shaw or Tolstoy or anybody else. She was intelligent, with a great love of literature, and especially of Stevenson. But if Stevenson had come into the room and explained his personal doubts about personal immortality, she would have regretted that he should be wrong upon the point, but would otherwise have been utterly unaffected. She was not at all like Robespierre, except in a taste for neatness in dress, and yet it is only in Mr. Belloc’s book on Robespierre that I have ever found any words that describe the unique quality that cut her off from the current culture and saved her from it. “God had given him to his mind a stone tabernacle in which certain great truths were preserved imperishable.
“G.K.” WROTE TO HIS LADY
When “G.K.” was writing his autobiography, Frances Chesterton’s one request to Gilbert was to keep her out of it. But indeed from the year 1901, when this most happy married life began, down to his death two years ago, it was impossible that he should ever keep her out of his work, for she was ever in his thought.
Let anyone take down the volume of his collected poetry and scan the lyrics, and they will find that no poet since Browning has ever written more perfectly to his lady, or more deeply appreciated all that is meant by the great sacrament of marriage. It was ever in both their thoughts. The grief of those years of perfect companionship was the absence of the children that they longed for.
But unlike many childless couples that are embittered by disappointment and dislike the children of others, Gilbert and Frances loved their nieces and nephews and innumerable godchildren, and established with them an intensely personal relationship.
No mother could have discussed the future of an only child with more affection and understanding than I heard Frances show as she talked of some niece or nephew. They delighted in preparing parties and surprises for their young neighbors, and even went so far as to select by preference a railway carriage full of children.
TO BEACONSFIELD
In 19082 they moved from Battersea, where they had lived in a flat, to their first little house at Beaconsfield—Overroads.
Mrs. Frances Chesterton found some satisfaction for what Gilbert has called her “hungry appetite for all the fruitful things like fields and gardens.”
It was surely from his wife’s attitude to life that Gilbert Chesterton drew the theory of woman’s powers and position which he expressed so eloquently.
Woman was queen, and being queen, she had no use for a vote. This certainly was the view of Frances Chesterton.3 She kept deliberately away from publicity. She wrote poetry which her friends loved, but she wrote it for her friends, not for the public. She was pleased when Walter de la Mare praised it,4 but probably equally pleased that it had given joy to a Beaconsfield neighbor.
Says the dedication to Frances Chesterton of the Ballad of the White Horse, and I think it was largely this fact that made “G.K.C.” linger so long in what was for him a half-way house between his youthful agnosticism and the logical outcome of his philosophy, the Catholic Church. But in fact, Gilbert Chesterton was received into the Church in 1922, and Frances only in 1926. Henceforward the little Catholic Church at Beaconsfield became central in both their lives. It was Frances Chesterton who brought to Candlemas Lane, Beaconsfield, the nursing sisters of the Bon Secours, and in her last illness she was under their loving care.
In our last talk together she told me that Candlemas Lane was a relic of the old Catholic titles of medieval Beaconsfield, and she sent me to visit the little Chapel in the hospital, so close to her own flower-filled room. The church of St. Teresa is the memorial of both Gilbert and Frances Chesterton. They rest together under Eric Gill’s fine monument.5
December 14, 1938
Page 18
Mrs. G.K. Chesterton
A friend6 writes: —
Frances Chesterton has died at the Hospital of Saint Joseph in Beaconsfield. It is little more than two years ago on a June night when the sky was like a thrush’s egg with a single star on it, that she followed G.K.’s bare coffin to the “decent inn of death.” Writing of her one writes of both: they seem inseparable. Both of them were eternally secure in an armour that protected them against the vulgarities of the world, the squalors of life, and, at the end, this integrity was utterly preserved and they passed quietly without noise, drama, or impertinent observation. A few months ago, I took a small boy to call upon her. “I think,” he asked with great tact, “it would be better not to mention Him to Her?” I agreed. I did not know how little it was going to matter; how short the parting was going to be. There was a toy cupboard there. It was opened and denuded, that toy cupboard with the smallest rabbit, the smallest candlestick, the smallest doll in the world, and the youthful visitor departed with the smallest something in the warm walnut of a hand that lay in mine.
When I first knew her she still lingered in the cool cloisters of Anglo-Catholicism, and later I saw her pass to the warmer earth of the Roman Church. For her, faith must always colour existence, and I do not think she had very much sympathy with anything that did not reflect it. “Anemones,” G.K. had said, “are the most Christian of flowers—they are the colours of stained glass.” She also would have found her Chartres in a bunch of spring flowers. The last flowers I saw beside her bed were gentians in a bowl and, doubtless, watching them, she remembered that holy coat whose colour was better than good news. It will be some time before the inhabitants of Beaconsfield, passing by her house, without the daily bread of dropping in, will be able to console themselves with the thought that she is almost certainly more at home where she has gone.
Mrs. Frances Chesterton
By E.C. Bentley
If Frances Chesterton is best remembered as the wife of Gilbert Chesterton, it is certainly not in the sense of her having sunk her individuality in that of her renowned husband. It is because theirs was so close and natural a union that those who knew them both could hardly think of them apart; and so it was for their thirty-five years of married life.
She was from the first a woman of firm personality and definite habits of mind, masked by gentleness and quietude of manner due, perhaps, to her serenity of religious conviction. G.K.C. met her first in a circle in which a loose culture and a vague soulfulness were the fashion; and what interested him in her was her active dislike of all such laxity and aimlessness.
She was practical, she was an organizer, she was, above all, a devout Anglo-Catholic, and her unparaded literary gift came out in the simple devotional poetry known only to her friends, and treasured by them. G.K.C., when he first met her, was a creedless pantheist; he became her convert: as he wrote in the dedication to the Ballad of the White Horse, “I bring these rhymes to you, who brought the Cross to me.” After he was received into the Church of Rome many years later, it was at her own time and by her own way of thought that she followed him.
The basis of what he called his “indefensibly fortunate and happy life” were the devotion of his mother and the devotion of his wife. He passed directly from the care of the one to the care of the other. Frances Chesterton made his household and home, shared his every interest, was his right-hand in all his dealings with the world. They had in common that goodness which, as he wrote, “is God’s last word.” Limitless charity, steady pursuit of the Christian ideal: they had humour, the love of friends, delight in letters and art. It was a perfect companionship.7
Geoffrey Shaw wrote on December 13, 1938, of Frances:
What a lovely spirit! Whenever I met her, I always felt I was in the presence of absolute goodness. She reflected this in her poetry quite simply and naturally. She was a heavenward mortal.
The following interesting tidbit was published just after Frances died. It is included here as a sort of proof of how little we know about Frances Chesterton’s personal connections. These people who attended her funeral we can presume knew her well, loved her, respected her—these were her friends. And yet, many of the names are unfamiliar, unknown and likely unknowable. However, to probe even further into her life, it would be interesting to look these unknown folks up and see what their connection was to Frances and/or Gilbert. The following has been transcribed verbatim.
The Funeral of Mrs. G.K. Chesterton
The Catholic Herald
December 23, 1938
Page 12
The funeral of Mrs. G.K. Chesterton took place at Beaconsfield on Friday. The Requiem Mass was sung by Mgr. C.W. Smith, parish priest of St. Teresa’s Church, assisted by Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P.
Among those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Luchian (sic) Oldershaw (brother-in-law and sister), Mrs. Cecil Chesterton (sister-in-law), Mr. Oliver Chesterton, Mr. Charles Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Chesterton, Commander and Mrs. Smith (nephew and niece), Miss R.K. Bastable, Mr. Charles Bastable, Miss Dorothy Collins (secretary), and Mr. C. Child (staff).
Dr. V.G. Bakewell, Miss Phyllis Brandon, Mrs. R. Bedding, Miss Patsy Burke, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Braybrooke, Dr. M. K. Braybrooke, Lady Bennett, Mr. Hilaire Belloc, Mr. E.C. Bentley, Rev. Fr. A. Brennan, Miss Buckland, Count and Countess Michael de la Bedoyere, Mrs. Bowley, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Clerk, Mrs. G.N. Church, Miss M. Church, Mrs. Edred Corner, Mme. De Montaner, Mr. and Mrs. De Ayaia (representing Mr. and Mrs. P. Franklin), Mrs. R. Deeves, Mr. Eugene Dutton, Mr. Eastman, Major K. Fasken, Dr. P.J. Flood, Captain and Mrs. Fairholm, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bally Gibson, Mr. B.C. Guiness (sic), Mr. and Mrs. Eric Gill, Mrs. B.J. Grey.
Mrs. J.L. Garvin, Miss Graham, Miss Garry, Mrs. S. T. Greenwood, Mrs. E. M. Henderson, Lady Heal, Mrs. M. Halford, Mrs. F.M. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C., Miss Hickey, Mr. and Mrs. R. Jebb, Mrs. Hugh King, Mr. J.V.A. Kelley, Miss E. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. R. Oswald Lamigeon, Mrs. De Luzy, Miss M.E. Langton, Fr. Lockyer, Miss McDonnell, Fr. F.G. Murphy, Miss K. Meates. Mr. G. Macdonald, Mr. S.S. Macdonald, Miss M. Maloney, Mrs. F. Mackrell, Fr. Maunsell, Mrs. Saxon-Mills, Miss Joan Saxon-Mills, Miss Grace Saxon-Mills, Mr. Gregor Macdonald, Mr. E.J. Macdonald (representing Westminster Catholic Inquiry Bureau), Mrs. Nicholl, Miss C. Nicholl, Mr. Richard O’Sullivan, K.C.
Mrs. Gordon Phillips (North Provincial Cross, Gerrard’s Cross), Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Paynter, Mrs. Charles Preston, Mrs. Pepyat-Evans, Mrs. M. Ryan, Mr. Gerald Ryan, Mrs. Cecil Roscoe (representing Writers’ Club Poetry Circle), Mrs. And Miss Rushton, the Rev. J. Rigby, the Rev. W.I. Rice, Mrs. Malcolm Smith, sisters from St. Joseph Nursing Home, Mr. and Mrs. Shee, Mr. F.G. Salter, Mr. Lawrence Soloman, Miss G. Shaw, the Rev. Hy Thompson (hon. Sec. Fellowship of the Philosophical Society of England), Miss R. Townsen (representing Miss Bore), Mr. J. Walsh, Miss L. Watts, Miss M. Wace, Mr. and Mrs. Hanzard Watt, and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Douglas Woodruff.
Published in the U.K. Guardian
April 26, 1939, page 8
Mrs. Frances Alice Chesterton, of Top Meadow, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, widow of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the well-known writer, and daughter of the late George William Blogg, the diamond merchant, died on December 12 last, leaving estate of the gross value of £30,752 with net personally £25,060 (estate duty £2,917). She gives:
£1,500 and a piece of land to Miss Dorothy Edith Collins, and the use of her residence Top Meadow for one year and £500 towards its upkeep.
And subject therein her property Top Meadow to the Roman Catholic Church, Beaconsfield.
£2,000 to the Chesterton Memorial Fund if not already given.
Any literary assets accruing from the sale of her husband’s books to the Royal Literary Fund.
Her personal papers and letters to Dorothy Edith Collins, to be dealt with at her discretion.
£500 each to the Converts’ Aid Society, the Catholic Relief Fund for Homeless and Destitute Men, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Beaconsfield, the Crusade of Rescue.
£250 to the convalescent home for journalists run by the Institute of Journalists.
£250 to the Babies Convalescent Home, Beaconsfield.
£500 to the Cecil Houses (Inc.) for Homeless Women.
And subject to the disposal of her effects, the residue of the property to Miss Dorothy Edith Collins for the Benefit of the Roman Catholic or other public objects, but desiring her to put aside £3,000 for the benefit of her nephew Peter Oldershaw for life.
Here we can see the causes Gilbert and Frances cared about and contributed to, and in particular to note her willing money to Ada Chesterton’s cause, the Cecil Houses, a cause which Frances and Gilbert fully supported.
Just for curiosity’s sake, let us for a moment look at G.K. Chesterton’s will:
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me, Gilbert Keith Chesterton of Top Meadow Beaconsfield in the County of Buckinghamshire.
Executrix: I appoint my Wife, Frances Alice Chesterton Sole Executrix and Trustee of this my will. I give and bequeath the following legacies free of duty to:
Grace Gilbert
Winifred Gilbert
Kathleen Sandys
Dorothy Gilbert, two hundred pounds each.
To:
Patricia Burke, one thousand pounds.
The parish priest of the Catholic Church of Beaconsfield, five hundred pounds.
To:
Dorothy Edith Collins, two thousand pounds and I DECLARE that Dorothy Edith Collins shall have the sole custody of all my papers, letters, manuscripts at Top Meadow and I request her to use them as may be most advantageous for the benefit of my Wife during her life and after her death for her own benefit but with full power to suppress or destroy any of them as she may in her absolute discretion deem well.
I GIVE and BEQUEATH all my books to my Wife for her life and after her death I direct that Dorothy Edith Collins shall be at liberty to choose any she may wish to have for herself and also to give any to any of my friends and that the remainder shall be sold and the proceeds given to the Royal Literary Fund.
I GIVE and BEQUEATH unto my Trustee and Dorothy Edith Collins jointly all my literary works published and unpublished and the copyrights therein and all my literary property of every kind (except my before mentioned papers, letters, and manuscripts) subject to and with the benefit of all contracts and licenses affecting the same with full power to deal with the same as in their absolute discretion they may think best as fully and effectually as I myself if living could to PROVIDED ALWAYS that such power shall be exercised only upon the advice and with the approval of A.P. Watt and Son of Hastings House Norfolk Street London … who shall be employed as Literary Agents and advisers in all matters relating to my literary property for as long as they are willing to act in that capacity and paid their usual commission and charges for all work done.
And as to the remainder of my estate of whatever kind I GIVE DEVISE and BEQUEATH the same unto my wife absolutely and lastly I revoke all former wills … signed G.K. Chesterton.
A Codicil was added on Feb 17, 1934:
In the event of my wife Frances predeceasing me:
1.I GIVE my property known as Top Meadow Beaconsfield to the Roman Catholic Church at Beaconsfield to be sold or used as may be determined for the welfare of the parish it being my wish that the property should if possible be used for Educational purposes such as a Convent School or Seminary
2.I GIVE AND BEQUEATH the following legacies free of duty namely to:
Edward Macdonald, two thousand pounds.
Ada Elizabeth Chesterton, one thousand pounds.
Lucian Oldershaw, one thousand pounds.
Rhoda Bastable, five hundred pounds.
Cecil Houses (Inc.) for Homeless Women, five hundred pounds.
Converts’ Aid Society, five hundred pounds.
Catholic Fund for the Homeless and Destitute Men, five hundred.
Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Beaconsfield, five hundred.
The Convalescent Home for Journalists, run by the Institute of Journalists, two hundred and fifty.
The Babies’ Convalescent Home, Beaconsfield, two hundred fifty Mary Rushton, one hundred.
I GIVE and BEQUEATH the residue of my estate to Dorothy Edith Collins to be used at her absolute discretion for the benefit of Catholic or other public objects AND in all other respects I confirm my will, etc. Signed G.K.C.
The estate left by Gilbert to Frances was worth about $141,945 in US dollars. The equivalent in today’s dollars would be about $2.3 million dollars.8
At the same time, Frances Chesterton made out a will, too. Her bequests are listed above, but here I will list the more personal items.
To my sister, Ethel Oldershaw, one thousand pounds.
To my three nieces: Gertrude Smith, Pamela Oldershaw and
Catherine Oldershaw, one thousand pounds each.
One thousand pounds to be used for the education of Sheila.
Smith (daughter of my niece Gertrude Smith).
To my nephew Basil Oldershaw, five hundred pounds.
To Michael Braybrooke, five hundred pounds.9
To my cousin Rhoda Bastable, one thousand pounds.
To Olga Burke, nine hundred pounds (or if not living, to her daughter, Patricia Burke).
To Madeline Hamilton Watts, one hundred pounds.
To Edward MacDonald in trust for the education of his children in equal shares, one thousand five hundred pounds.
To Mary Rushton, one hundred pounds.
And to Dorothy Edith Collins, my furniture silver place china ornaments and other household effects, also all my jewelry, watches, trinkets and ornaments to be dealt with by her in accordance with my wishes of which she is fully aware.
There was a codicil dated October 12, 1938—exactly two months before she died—stating that she revokes the one thousand five hundred pounds given to Edward MacDonald for the education of his children.
CHRONOLOGY OF FRANCES ALICE BLOGG CHESTERTON
| 1869 | Birth of Frances Alice Blogg |
| 1871 | George Alfred Knollys born |
| 1872 | Ethel Laura born |
| 1873 | Helen Colborne born |
| 1874 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton born |
| 1875 | Helen died |
| 1875 | Gertrude Colborne born |
| 1876 | Unnamed brother stillborn |
| 1878 | Rachel Margaret born |
| 1879 | Cecil Chesterton born |
| 1881 | Rachel died |
| 1875-83 | German Kindergarten and elementary School in London |
| 1883 | Father’s death |
| 1886-87 | Notting Hill High School (age 17-18) |
| 1888-91 | St. Stephen’s College (age 19-21) |
| 1891 | Employed variously as teacher/tutor/governess |
| 1894 | I.D.K. Debating Society started |
| 1895 | Begins work at P.N.E.U. as secretary |
| 1896 | Meets Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| 1898 | Midsummer—Becomes engaged |
| 1899 | Gertrude’s accidental death |
| 1900 | GKC’s first two books published, The Wild Knight and Greybeards at Play |
| 1901 | Marriage to G.K. Chesterton, set up house in Kensington for a few months |
| 1901 | Move to 48 Overstrand Mansions, Battersea, London |
| 1902 | Operation |
| 1904 | Gilbert and Frances meet Fr. John O’Connor |
| 1906 | Operation |
| 1908 | George Knollys commits suicide |
| 1908 | Operation to improve fertility |
| 1909 | Move to Beaconsfield—Overroads |
| 1909 | Accepts the fact that she cannot bear children |
| 1911 | Ballad of the White Horse published—dedicated to Frances |
| 1911 | Chesterton quote book published, selections made by Frances |
| 1912-1913 | Marconi Scandal |
| 1914-1915 | GKC’s major illness, almost dies |
| 1915 | “Poems” by Frances Chesterton published privately and given to friends |
| 1917 | GKC’s brother Cecil marries Ada Eliza Jones—a.k.a John Keith Prothero |
| 1918 | Cecil dies |
| 1919 | Palestine tour |
| 1920 | Italy tour |
| 1921 | United States tour |
| 1922 | Edward Chesterton dies |
| 1922 | GKC converts to Roman Catholicism—move to Top Meadow |
| 1922 | Writes the play The Children’s Crusade and Geoffrey Shaw sets “Crusader’s Carol,” a.k.a “The Shepherds Found Thee by Night” to music |
| 1922 | “How Far is it To Bethlehem?” published by Novello & Co as musical score |
| 1923 | “The Shepherds Found Thee by Night”—lyrics by Frances Chesterton published by Novello & Co. |
| 1924 | The Children’s Crusade, Sir Cleges, The Christmas Gift: Three Plays for Children published by Samuel French |
| 1925 | Piers Plowman’s Pilgrimage published by Samuel French |
| 1926 | 25th wedding anniversary |
| 1926 | Frances converts to Roman Catholicism |
| 1926 | Dorothy Collins hired as GKC’s secretary |
| 1927 | Poland trip, Faith and Fable performed in Bath |
| 1928 | How Far Is It To Bethlehem and Other Carols published by Sheed and Ward |
| 1929 | Italy trip, Rome, audience with Pope Pius XI, meets Mussolini |
| 1930/31 | United States again, Canada—Frances ill in Tennessee |
| 1931 | GKC began radio talks on the BBC |
| 1932 | Dorothy Collins converts to Roman Catholicism |
| 1932 | Trip to Dublin |
| 1933 | Marie Louise Chesterton dies. Blanche Blogg dies |
| 1934 | Rome again |
| 1935 | Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium |
| 1935 | GKC nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature10 |
| 1936 | Reviews I Lived In a Slum by Ada Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly |
| 1936 | Lourdes and Lisieux, France |
| 1936 | GKC dies |
| 1938 | Frances diagnosed with cancer |
| 1938 | Frances dies |
THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE AND BLANCHE BLOGG
Frances Alice Blogg, June 28, 1869
George Alfred Knollys, April 10, 187111
Ethel Laura, May 2, 187212
Helen Colborne, November 22, 187313
Gertrude Colborne, May 14, 187514
A son, December 11, 1876, stillborn15
Rachel Margaret, August 15, 187816
KNOWN ADDRESSES WHERE FRANCES LIVED PRIOR TO HER MARRIAGE:
| 1869 | No. 22 Hart Street |
| 1870-71 | No. 20 Baker Street |
| 1875-78 | No. 37, Upper Bedford Place |
| 1881 | 17 Tavistock Square |
| 1881 | 1 Oxford Villas Brown Road |
| 1882-84 | Spencer House, No. 22, Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick |
| 1885-86 | 1 Thames Place, Putney |
| 1886-1901 | No. 8 Bath Road |
LIST OF KNOWN PUBLISHED WORKS & MUSIC OF FRANCES CHESTERTON
SOURCES:
Balfour, Ian. “The Agra Diamond,” Famous Diamonds, http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/agradiamond.html.
Balston, Jenny. The Story of St. Stephen’s College, (Kent: The Old St. Stephenites Society, 1994).
Barker, Dudley. G.K. Chesterton: A Biography (New York: Stein & Day, 1973).
Basset, Bernard S.J. “Frances & Gilbert,” The Sacred Heart Messenger, (June 1984), 16-18.
Blanchard, Edward Leman. The Life and Reminiscences of E.L. Blanchard, 1891. http://archive.org/details/lifeandreminisceo2blanuoft.
Blanchard, Samuel Laman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Laman_Blanchard
Blogg & Martin: http://www.archive.org/stream/galaxymag-o6newyrich/galaxymago6newyrich_djvu.txt.
Blogg & Martin: http://www.archive.org/stream/populartreatiseooofeucrich/populartreatiseooofeucrich_djvu.txt.
Boyd, Ian C.S.B. “Dorothy Collins, 1894-1988,” Chesterton Review Vol. 14, no. 4 (November 1988).
Braybrooke, Patrick F.R.S.L. Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, I Remember G.K. Chesterton (Epsom: Dorling & Co.), April, 1938.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “Happy Evenings,” Gilbert Vol. 15, no. 8 (July/August 2012): 27.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “Mrs. Cecil Chesterton,” Gilbert Vol. 15, no. 3 (November/December 2012): 16.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “Frances Chesterton and Her Father,” Gilbert Vol. 14, no. 5 (March/April 2011): 32.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “Brother-in-Law of G.K. Chesterton, George Alfred Knollys Blogg (1871-1908),” Gilbert Vol. 17, no. 2-3 (Nov./Dec. 2013): 8-10.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. How Far Is It To Bethlehem: The Plays and Poetry of Frances Chesterton (Chesterton & Brown Publishing, 2012).
Central and Cecil Housing: http://www.ccht.org.uk/main.cfm.
Chesterton, Ada Eliza (Mrs. Cecil). The Chestertons (London: Chapman & Hall, 1941).
Chesterton, Ada Eliza (Mrs. Cecil). In Darkest London (London: Stanley Paul, 1926).
Chesterton, Ada Eliza (Mrs. Cecil): http://underworldarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/ada-chesterton-slumming-it-in-1920s-london/.
Chesterton, Ada Eliza: http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=39077&back=.
Chesterton, Frances. The Children’s Crusade, Sir Cleges, The Christmas Gift: Three Plays for Children, (London: Samuel French, Ltd., 1924).
Chesterton, Frances. How Far Is It To Bethlehem and Other Carols, Sheed & Ward, year unknown.
Chesterton, Frances. Piers Plowman’s Pilgrimage: A Morality Play (London: Samuel French, Ltd., 1925).
Chesterton, Frances. Poems (Beaconsfield: Excelsior Printing Works at 24, Aylesbury Street, 1915).
Chesterton, Frances. http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/other-resources/frances-chesterton/.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “The Woman Who Was Chesterton,” talk given at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Chesterton Society, http://www.chesterton.org/store/#!/~/product/category=704003&id=7492171.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “The Plays and Poetry of Frances Chesterton,” talk given at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Chesterton Society, http://www.chesterton.org/shop/the-plays-and-poetry-of-frances-chesterton/.
Brown, Nancy Carpentier. “The Marriage of Gilbert and Frances Chesterton,” talk given at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Chesterton Society.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Autobiography (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006). And his poems (Ignatius Press, three volumes in The Collected Works, Vol. 10 A, B, and C) and everything else he wrote.
Chesterton, Lilian. “Further Chesterton Recollections,” Mark Twain Quarterly Vol. 5, no. 4 (Spring 1943).
Clemens, Cyril. Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries (New York: Gordon Press, 1972).
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Ignatius Press, all volumes.
Conlon, Denis. Basil Howe: A Story of Young Love (London: New City, 2001).
Dale, Alzina Stone. The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G.K. Chesterton (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1982).
Davenport-Hines, Richard. Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008).
Evans, Tony. “Chesterton Around the World: News from London,” Gilbert Vol. 1, no. 6 (February 1998), description of a walk through Bedford Park.
Greene, Dana. The Living of Maisie Ward (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
Hansen, Ron. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Exiles (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
Heaton, Mary Margaret: http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/heatonm.htm.
Hood, Alban, O.S.B. “In Diebus Illis: Father Ignatius Rice, O.S.B., (1883-1955),” The Chesterton Review Vol. 15, no. 3 (August 1989): 354-363.
Howard, Montague. Old London Silver, Its History, Its Makers and Its Marks (London: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1903).
Jerrold, Douglas. http://www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=jerrold&GSiman=1&GScid=658403&GRid=12603206&.
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1 This is not accurate. Samuel Laman Blanchard was Frances’s Great-Uncle. Jerrold was his best friend. Jerrold’s daughter married Blanchard’s son.
2 Actually, 1909.
3 This last was not true, and again proves Maisie Ward was not an intimate of Frances. Frances did want the vote, and was friends with many suffragettes.
4 See “Walter de la Mare and Chesterton” in Chesterton Review Vol. 10, no. 1 (February 1984): 36. It is, then, a little surprising to find some evidence that Chesterton was definitely not de la Mare’s literary cup of tea; in the over three thousand pages of his six anthologies of prose and verse, de la Mare quotes Chesterton only once, and even then the choice falls upon a passage from his study of Chaucer. But in his charming children’s anthology, Tom Tiddler’s Ground (1931, reprinted New York, 1961, 176) de la Mare gives pride of place to a poem by Frances Chesterton. Mrs. Chesterton’s poem, “Children’s Song of the Nativity” is set beside the exquisite fourteenth-century lyric “I sing of a Maiden.” Frances and Walter, says Gilbert, discovered a shared passion for “collecting minute objects, of the nature of ornaments, but hardly to be seen with the naked eye.”
5 Catholic Herald (December 16, 1938): 9.
6 Mrs. J. L. Garvin.
7 “Mrs. Frances Chesterton: G.K.C. and His Wife,” The Observer (December 18, 1938): 9. E. C. Bentley met GKC at St. Paul’s when they were but boys, and one of the original members of the Junior Debating Club, and author of the well-known work Trent’s Last Case. He married Violet Boileau, of whom Chesterton wrote many teasing poems.
8 “G.K. Chesterton Estate of $141,945 Goes to Wife,” Chicago Daily Tribune (September 10, 1936).
9 Semi-adopted by Gilbert and Frances, from 1907-1917 he lived with them on all school holidays, served in the Royal Army as a Medical Corps; full name Michael Knollys Braybrooke.
10 Chris Chan, “Why Didn’t G.K. Chesterton Ever Win the Nobel Prize for Literature?” Gilbert Vol. 7, no. 6 (2004): 28.
11 Godfathers were William Wilson and Ben Nattali (The Library, Windsor Castle), godmother was Emma Heaton.
12 Godfather Uncle Wm. Cosmo Monkhouse, noted poet and art critic. Godmothers Alice Martin, daughter of Charles Martin, diamond merchant, and Mary Braybrooke, cousin of Blanche Blogg.
13 Godfather, her uncle, the Honourable Edmund Colborne, godmothers, Aunt Julia Marsden Blogg and Blanche Blogg, her mother; died January 24, 1875, at about fifteen months, cause of death—gastric fever and bronchitis.
14 Godfather, her uncle, the Honourable Edmund Colborne, godmothers, Aunt Julia Marsden Blogg and Lilly Ivan Muller.
15 The Blogg family Bible, as shown to me by Frances’s grand nephews.
16 Godfather, Alfred B. Keymer and godmothers, Sonya Keymer and Emma Blogg, and died Feb 6, 1881, cause of death—bronchitis and pneumonia at two and a half years of age.