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Frances Faviell



Frances Faviell (1905-1959) was the pen name of Olivia Faviell Lucas, painter and author. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London under the aegis of Leon Underwood. In 1930 she married a Hungarian academic and travelled with him to India where she lived for some time at the ashram of Rabindranath Tagore, and visiting Nagaland. She then lived in Japan and China until having to flee from Shanghai during the Japanese invasion. She met her second husband Richard Parker in 1939 and married him in 1940.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 592 ratings · 117 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
A Chelsea Concerto
4.40 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions
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The Dancing Bear
4.22 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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Thalia
3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions
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A House on the Rhine
4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1955 — 12 editions
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The Fledgeling
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions
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“I had a number of German and Austrian refugee friends in London and they kept on telephoning in consternation as the news grew more and more disquieting. To them it was incredible that we had not heeded the growing threat from the country from which they had been forced to flee.”
― Frances Faviell, A Chelsea Concerto
tags: refuge, refugees, world-war-2
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“You’re too good to me. I don’t deserve it.’ She looked surprised and gratified. ‘No, I don’t think you do. But it would be a poor world if we only got what we deserved.”
― Frances Faviell, Thalia
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“had a quality of never having grown-up yet being completely mature.”
― Frances Faviell, A Chelsea Concerto
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