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| In his will TLM-P tried to ensure Maud's future by stipulating that his legacy to Rosa would go to Maud on her mother's death. As with the other women legatees, this was to be 'free from marital control'. Maud was admitted to a private mental hospital, Holloway Sanatorium, on 28 September 1902. She was transferred to St Ann's private asylum, Canford Cliffs near Bournemouth on 29 April 1902; tragically she remained committed within a hospital for the rest of her life, over 40 years. She died on 6 July 1941.((Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999, p.243.)) As Jessica White so eloquently writes, for Rosa the pain of her daughter's fate could not be expressed in writing: 'Rather, it could be heard only through a thunderous silence.'((Jessica White, ‘I actually hear you think of me’: Voices, Mediums and Deafness in the Writing of Rosa Praed', //Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature//, 15:1, 15pp.))\\ | In his will TLM-P tried to ensure Maud's future by stipulating that his legacy to Rosa would go to Maud on her mother's death. As with the other women legatees, this was to be 'free from marital control'. Maud was admitted to a private mental hospital, Holloway Sanatorium, on 28 September 1902. She was transferred to St Ann's private asylum, Canford Cliffs near Bournemouth on 29 April 1902; tragically she remained committed within a hospital for the rest of her life, over 40 years. She died on 6 July 1941.((Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999, p.243.)) As Jessica White so eloquently writes, for Rosa the pain of her daughter's fate could not be expressed in writing: 'Rather, it could be heard only through a thunderous silence.'((Jessica White, ‘I actually hear you think of me’: Voices, Mediums and Deafness in the Writing of Rosa Praed', //Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature//, 15:1, 15pp.))\\ |
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| {{:maud_praed.jpg?250|}} This photograph is identified as Maud Praed in her 20s. It is almost certainly actually Florence, Thomas de M. M-P's wife. The photograph was identified by Colin Roderick, who was not a reliable source for all family members.((Photo Provenance: J. Godden. The same photo is in the ML at PXA1403 Box 1, part of M-P papers acquired by Colin Roderick when he wrote Rosa's biography.)) \\ | {{:maud_praed.jpg?250|}} This photograph is identified as Maud Praed in her 20s. It is almost certainly actually Florence, Thomas de M. M-P's wife. The photograph was identified by Colin Roderick, who was not a reliable source for all family members.((Photo Provenance: J. Godden. The same photo is in the ML at PXA1403 Box 1, part of M-P papers acquired by Colin Roderick when he wrote Rosa's biography.)) The NLA has another photo said to be Maud at 16 years old which is more likely to be her.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.82.))\\ |
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| The hospital case book for Maud suggests that she became paranoid after the death of her beloved father. The impact of her once-beloved mother's relationship with Nancy Harwood, a relationship then seen as depraved, was not mentioned. On 28 September 1902 her hospital the notes stated that 'She informs me she is accused of killing her father & that the police are spreading reports of scandals about her - she cannot sleep & wishes to escape from the persecution'. She could lip-read and read writing, but could not speak very intelligibly, and suffered from various paranoia delusions and hallucinations. In April 1902 she was transferred to the private asylum St Ann's at Bournemouth.((transcript case notes from 29 September 1902 to 25 May 1926, copy with T.A. & M.T. M-P.))\\ | The hospital case book for Maud suggests that she became paranoid after the death of her beloved father. The impact of her once-beloved mother's relationship with Nancy Harwood, a relationship then seen as depraved, was not mentioned. On 28 September 1902 her hospital the notes stated that 'She informs me she is accused of killing her father & that the police are spreading reports of scandals about her - she cannot sleep & wishes to escape from the persecution'. She could lip-read and read writing, but could not speak very intelligibly, and suffered from various paranoia delusions and hallucinations. In April 1902 she was transferred to the private asylum St Ann's at Bournemouth.((transcript case notes from 29 September 1902 to 25 May 1926, copy with T.A. & M.T. M-P.))\\ |