Aelfrida Catharine Wetenhall Tillyard was a British author, medium, lecturer on Comparative Religion and associated religious topics, spiritual advisor and self-styled mystic.
10 Facts About Aelfrida Tillyard
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Aelfrida Tillyard's mother was one of the first women to take the Higher Local Examination after attending lectures for women in Cambridge.
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Aelfrida Tillyard subsequently taught languages at Cambridge schools, but she wanted to write.
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Unlike her former husband, Aelfrida Tillyard never remarried but continued a series of intense friendships with younger men begun during her marriage, most notably with Ernest Altounyan, Hubert Henderson, Thomas Henn, John Layard, Juan Mascaro and Giovanni Papini.
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Aelfrida Tillyard conducted one such friendship with a younger woman and one with the older French author Albert Erlande.
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Aelfrida Tillyard documented her aunt's travels to speak about temperance in Ireland, Canada, America, Scandinavia and South Africa.
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In pursuit of her 'closer walk with God' Aelfrida Tillyard became an Anglo-Catholic and an extern oblate of St Mary's Abbey, West Malling, Kent.
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Aelfrida Tillyard wrote two science fiction novels articulating her conservative political views.
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Aelfrida Tillyard remained there as resident tertiary until asked to leave in 1946.
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Aelfrida Tillyard bequeathed her notebooks, published and unpublished works, and 75 volumes of diaries to Girton College, Cambridge, of which her daughters were alumnae.