Letitia Fairfield
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Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield MB CM MD was a medical doctor, a lawyer, a war-worker, and the first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London. She received a CBE for her outstanding achievements
Letitia Fairfield circa 1917
Rebecca West
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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books
Letitia Fairfield
…witchcraft. Fairfield was born in Melbourne in 1885, and was the oldest of three daughters; the youngest, Cicily, was the novelist later known as Dame Rebecca West. The sisters' parents regularly engaged their children in intellectual and political conversation, their Anglo-Irish father Charles being a journalist…
Portrait of West by Madame Yevonde
West's grave in Brookwood Cemetery