Margaret Leonora Eyles was an English novelist, feminist and memoirist.
11 Facts About Leonora Eyles
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Leonora Eyles was educated at day schools and won a scholarship to stay as a pupil teacher at a local board school when she was 14.
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Leonora Eyles then sold some objects left to her by her mother and raised the money to move to Australia as a domestic servant.
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However, Leonora Eyles left her to bring them up on her own.
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Leonora Eyles lived in Peckham, south-east London, doing ill-paid work, until she gained a post as an appeals writer for the charity Barnardo's.
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Leonora Eyles spent the First World War as a munitions worker in Woolwich Arsenal with some 2000 other women.
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Leonora Eyles's deprivations were documented in The Woman in the Little House, which appeared first as a serial in Time and Tide.
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Leonora Eyles became a sought-after trade-union speaker and socialist writer before eventually joining the women's paper Woman's Own as an "agony aunt".
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Leonora Eyles's struggles are clear from her autobiographical work For My Enemy Daughter, addressed to her elder daughter, Vivyan Leonora Eyles, who had remained in Italy with her Italian husband, Mario Praz.
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Leonora Eyles died on 27 July 1960 at her home in Hampstead, London, at the age of 71.
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Leonora Eyles had been suffering from intestinal problems and diabetes mellitus.