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Rosamund Philpott at her Marygold Bindery (MoC)5 De Freville Avenue
History of 5 De Freville Avenue
1911
Rosamond Phillpott, 50, bookbinder artistic, b Somerset
Marguerite Ninet, visitor, 56, teacher of languages, b Switzerland
Annie Nightingale, servant, 26, b Girton
In 1901 Rosamond was living in Hammersmith. In Cambridge her workshop was called the Marygold Bindery. According to Enid Porter, Rosemary [sic] Philpott set up in Cambridge in 1903. She returned to London before returning to Cambridge to settle in Castle Street on part of the site of the present Kettle’s Yard gallery. Rosamond had trained at Sangorski and Sutcliffe in London in 1904. Various items associated with Rosamond’s work were acquired by the Cambridge Folk Museum in 1951.
A bound edition of R L Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of verse by Rosamun Philpott (MoC)
It seems quite likely that this is the same Rosamond Phillpott who stood for election in 1908 alongside Julia Kennedy but the two were both defeated. It wasn’t until 1914 that Cambridge would have its first woman councillor, Florence Ada Keynes.
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