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Editha Greville Prideaux
Editha Greville Foster ( Prideaux) was a New Zealand artist, and mother to Greville Texidor. Biography Editha Greville Prideaux was born on 31 August 1866 in Tiverton, Devon. She travelled widely with her parents and they settled in Auckland. She exhibited oil paintings with the Auckland Society of Arts from 1887 to 1895. In 1887, she exhibited: ''Study in an English Garden,'' and '' Rangitoto, from Cheltenham Beach,'' which was reproduced in the exhibition catalogue, and she was listed in several categories in the associated Prize List. In 1888, she is listed as winning the junior medal for at the Auckland Free School of Art. In 1892, she exhibits a well-received still life at the Auckland Academy of Arts exhibition at Old Choral Hall. In 1893, she exhibited five paintings that were praised in the Auckland Society of Arts exhibition review: ''The Head of a Young Man, Old English Costume''; ''Alsace''; ''A Portrait of a Boy''; ''In the Old Orchard'' and ''On the Kukahu, Cant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greville Texidor
Margaret Greville Foster (1902 — 20 August 1964), best known by her pen name Greville Texidor, was an English fiction writer, notable for her work written while living in New Zealand from 1940 to 1948. After traveling the world as a performer and fighting alongside her husband for the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, Texidor went into exile in New Zealand with her family during the early years of World War II, pushed out of England due to her husband's German background and the couple's radical politics. In New Zealand, she began writing fiction and joined Auckland's literary community. Her short stories and novellas, compiled posthumously in the collection ''In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot: Selected Fiction'', are considered an important contribution to the Existentialism, existentialist period in New Zealand's literary canon. Early life Greville Texidor was born Margaret Greville Foster in 1902 in Wolverhampton, England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |