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26 Malcolm Street
History of 26 Malcolm Street
1913
Miss Sarah Smith
1915
In 2024 RC sent this note: I found an interesting account of T S Eliot’s first wife in an archive the other day that I thought you might be interested in. It comes from a letter from TSE to Eleanor Hinkley:
24 April 1915 – I met two English girls ‘with such amusing names’, and one is called Vivien [Haigh-Wood], who is at that time living as a governess at 26 Malcolm Street, Cambridge.
At this time Vivian was working as a Governess and I am unclear if she was living in with the family, but I think it’s likely that she was lodging there, as it seems many of the houses on the street were renting rooms.
circa 1950:
Miss Roberta Owen and her niece Dr Robin Andrews. Roberta Owen was the great-niece of Robert Owen, the Victorian scientist. She lived in the basement and let rooms to students.
1966
(Miss) Robin Andrew
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