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Frances Forbes-Robertson (after marriage, Frances Harrod; 1866 – 23 May 1956) was a British artist, novelist, and actor. Among her publications can be counted ''The Devil's Pronoun'' (1894), ''Odd Stories'' (1897), ''The Potentate'' (1898), ''Mother Earth'' (1902), ''The Hidden Model'' (1902), ''What We Dream'' (1903), ''Trespass'' (1928), and ''Stained Wings'' (1930).
She married Henry Dawes Harrod FSA in 1900, and was the mother of
Review of ''The Potentate''
in ''The Sketch'', vol. 22, June 15, 1898 {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes-Robertson, Frances 1866 births 1956 deaths 19th-century British novelists 19th-century British short story writers 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British short story writers 19th-century British women writers 20th-century British women writers Forbes-Robertson family
Biography
Frances Mary Desirée Forbes-Robertson was born in 1866. She was the youngest child of John Forbes-Robertson, a theatre critic and journalist fromAberdeen
Aberdeen ( ; ; ) is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, third most populous Cities of Scotland, Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeensh ...
, and his wife Frances. The eldest of the eleven children in the family was Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937)''Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, Beauty And Grace in Acting'', Obituaries, ''The Times'', 8 November 1937. was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertrud ...
, the actor. Two other brothers, Ian Forbes-Robertson (1859–1936), and Norman Forbes-Robertson (1858–1932) also became actors, and a third, Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865–1935) became a painter. She was the sister-in-law of the actress Maxine Elliott
Maxine Elliott (February 5, 1868 – March 5, 1940) also known as Little Jessie, Dettie or by her birth name Jessie Dermott, was an American actress and businesswoman. She managed her own theater and experimented with silent films in the 1910s. ...
, and the great-aunt of actress Meriel Forbes
Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson (13 September 1913 – 7 April 2000) was an English actress. She was a granddaughter of Norman Forbes-Robertson and great-niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. After making her stage debut with her father's tour ...
(granddaughter of her brother Norman), who married actor Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the trinity of male actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. He wo ...
. Forbes-Robertson was educated in convents in France and Italy.
She married Henry Dawes Harrod FSA in 1900, and was the mother of Roy Harrod
Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing '' The Life of John Maynard Keynes'' (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar de ...
, the economist.
Forbes-Robertson (known also by her married surname, Harrod) was the author of ''The Potentate'', ''Mother Earth'', ''The Hidden Model'', ''Odd Stories'', ''The Devil's Pronoun'', ''What We Dream'', ''Taming of the Ponte'', ''Trespass'' and ''Stained Wings''. She also published other works of fiction, such as those contributed to the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''Westminster Gazette'', and ''The Pall Mall Magazine
''The Pall Mall Magazine'' was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914. Begun by William Waldorf Astor as an offshoot of ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', the magazine included poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, and ...
''.
She died in London
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, 23 May 1956.
Selected works
As Frances Forbes-Robertson
* ''The Devil's Pronoun'', 1894 * ''Odd Stories'', 1897 * ''The Potentate'', 1898 * " The Wanton " *" The Horrible Man"As Frances Harrod
* ''Mother Earth'', 1902 * ''The Hidden Model'', 1902 * ''What We Dream'', 1903 * ''Trespass'', 1928 * ''Stained Wings'', 1930References
Attribution
* *Bibliography
*External links
*Review of ''The Potentate''
in ''The Sketch'', vol. 22, June 15, 1898 {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes-Robertson, Frances 1866 births 1956 deaths 19th-century British novelists 19th-century British short story writers 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British short story writers 19th-century British women writers 20th-century British women writers Forbes-Robertson family