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| Rosa (or Rosie as she was called by her family) as a young adult.{{:young_rosa_cropped.jpg?200|}}((Provenance: Jill Fleming))\\ | Rosa (or Rosie as she was called by her family) as a young adult.{{:young_rosa_cropped.jpg?200|}}((Provenance: Jill Fleming))\\ |
| Rosa c1870 in Brisbane {{:rosa_praed_qsldownload.png?3000|}}((State Library of Queensland)).// | Rosa c1870 in Brisbane {{:rosa_praed_qsldownload.png?3000|}}((State Library of Queensland)).\\ |
| Rosa in 1888.((Provenance: Jill Fleming)) {{:rosa_1888.jpg?200|}}\\ | Rosa in 1888.((Provenance: Jill Fleming)) {{:rosa_1888.jpg?200|}}\\ |
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| Rosa and Campbell Praed illustrate the popular saying about marrying in haste and repenting in leisure. They had four children, after which they they lived together, but considered the marriage over. Nevertheless, Praed encouraged and supported Rosa with her career as a writer. She only left him in c.1899-1900, a year before his death, to live with spiritualist Nancy Harward. Rosa believed she and Nancy were re-incarnated 'twin souls', destined to be together in succeeding lives: a more sceptical modern view is that Nancy's memories of 'past lives' derived from schizophrenia. Despite her spiritualist belief, and perhaps influenced by Justin McCarthy, in 1891 Rosa formally converted to Catholicism. She later changed her mind. Before her death in 1935 she drew up a codicil to her will asking to be buried with Protestant rites in All Souls Kensal Green Cemetery, London, sharing the grave of her companion for so many years, Nancy Harward.((Roderick, //In Mortal Bondage//, pp.202-03; Patricia Clarke, 'Rosa Praed's Irish Connections', //The Australian Journal of Irish Studies//, vol. 1, 2001, p.122.)) \\ | Rosa and Campbell Praed illustrate the popular saying about marrying in haste and repenting in leisure. They had four children, after which they they lived together, but considered the marriage over. Nevertheless, Praed encouraged and supported Rosa with her career as a writer. She only left him in c.1899-1900, a year before his death, to live with spiritualist Nancy Harward. Rosa believed she and Nancy were re-incarnated 'twin souls', destined to be together in succeeding lives: a more sceptical modern view is that Nancy's memories of 'past lives' derived from schizophrenia. Despite her spiritualist belief, and perhaps influenced by Justin McCarthy, in 1891 Rosa formally converted to Catholicism. She later changed her mind. Before her death in 1935 she drew up a codicil to her will asking to be buried with Protestant rites in All Souls Kensal Green Cemetery, London, sharing the grave of her companion for so many years, Nancy Harward.((Roderick, //In Mortal Bondage//, pp.202-03; Patricia Clarke, 'Rosa Praed's Irish Connections', //The Australian Journal of Irish Studies//, vol. 1, 2001, p.122.)) \\ |
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| For more photographs of Rosa and her family, see the website of the State Library of Queensland [[https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rosa%20Praed&tab=All&search_scope=Everything&vid=61SLQ_INST:SLQ&lang=en&offset=0example.com|search for Rosa Praed]] | For more photographs of Rosa and her family, see the website of the State Library of Queensland [[https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rosa%20Praed&tab=All&search_scope=Everything&vid=61SLQ_INST:SLQ&lang=en&offset=0example.com|search for Rosa Praed]] One of the many photos held by the State Library of Queensland is this one, when Rosa was aged 71 years old. {{:rosa_aged_71_qsl_fl38645.jpg?200|}} |
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