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Jessie Traill: A biography

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

She could have been one of our great-aunts. She was from that remarkable generation of educated, unmarried women who chose to make an independent life as mistresses of their own destinies. Jessie Traill (1881-1967) is the subject of a new biography by Jo Oliver. It is Oliver’s fifth book. Jessie Traill’s life-long ‘occupations’ were art and travel.

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