The Villa

'The Garden of Contentment'|Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave|Gloucestershire|Greek|Latin|Nottinghamshire. Growing up in genteel circumstances|Oxford. She was 70.In this story Mordaunt takes a house and a wish and reveals a very troubling family history.|acted as a housekeeper|and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong|and fabric and wallpaper design.In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe|and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds. She was educated at home by governesses|arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later. She lived in Melbourne for about eight years. To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper|as travel books|but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works.Her first book|designed embroideries|excelling at German|her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham|ideas in themselves. On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife|in the Canary Islands|landscape painting|made blouses|she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia|she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words|short stories|shorthand|the marriage 'ended in tragedy.'Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary|the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage|tilled gardens|travel and autobiography.She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and|was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction|wrote short stories and articles