19-567: (Redirected from Elfrida ) "Elfrida" redirects here. For other uses, see Elfrida (disambiguation) . Elfreda Gender Female Origin Word/name Germanic Meaning elf-strength Elfriede , also known as Elfreda , Elfrida , Alfrida , Aelfrida , Elfrieda , Elftrude , Elftraut among other variants, is a female given name, derived from Ælfþryð (Aelfthryth) meaning " elf -strength". The name fell out of fashion in
38-423: A United States Navy patrol vessel in commission in 1898, from 1899 to 1908, and from 1909 to 1918 Elfrida , a 1752 tragedy by William Mason Elfrida , a 1985 opera by Hungarian composer Erzsébet Szőnyi (1924–2019) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elfrida . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
57-467: A biography of her aunt, Agnes Elizabeth Slack who campaigned for temperance. She documented her aunt's travels to speak about temperance in Ireland, Canada, America, Scandinavia and South Africa. Following Alfred and Catharine Tillyard's respective deaths in 1929 and 1932, she decided to absolve herself of responsibility for her home and daughters in order to pursue her private and personal 'mystic way'. She
76-712: A series of intense friendships with younger men begun during her marriage, most notably with Ernest Altounyan , Hubert Henderson, Thomas Henn, John Layard, Juan Mascaro and Giovanni Papini. She also conducted one such friendship with a younger woman and one with the older French author Albert Erlande . In 1917 Tillyard came out as a mystic. Having already begun to record her mystico-spiritual experiences and their psychophysical manifestations in detailed diaries intended for posthumous publication, she also began to transcribe them in more or less fictionalised form in novels, homiletic books and moralistic short stories written between 1917 and 1958, some published, some not. In 1926 she wrote
95-702: A small house attached to the Convent of St Thomas the Martyr but a serious physical and mental breakdown in 1936 forced her to move to the protective environment afforded by the Society of the Sacred Cross at Tymawr Convent near Monmouth . She remained there as resident tertiary until asked to leave in 1946. From 1946 to 1953 she lived a semi-reclusive and prayerful but troubled life in two clergy houses in Cambridgeshire, effected
114-493: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Elfrida (disambiguation) Elfrida is a feminine given name - see Elfriede . Elfrida may also refer to: Elfrida, Arizona , an unincorporated community in the United States 618 Elfriede , an asteroid SS Elfrida , a Norwegian cargo ship in service from 1947 to 1959 USS Elfrida (SP-988) ,
133-412: Is set in an anti-religious dystopia controlled by the eugenics movement. The novel includes a character called "Big Brother" who leads a "Ministry of Reason" and there is also a propaganda department called the "Ministry of Aesthetics". The Approaching Storm (1932) is another dystopia set in a Britain ruled by a left-wing dictatorship . In 1934 she moved to Oxford to live an anchoritic life in
152-723: The Grahams lived in Russia, the United States, Germany and France as Constantine's Consular Service career dictated. After 1910 Tillyard and the children remained in Cambridge. During the war and thereafter Tillyard claimed to experience unwanted and sometimes unwelcome visits from dead persons known to or hitherto unknown by her; these included members of her family, former members of the Society for Psychical Research , Rupert Brooke and Roger Casement . Already under strain because of Constantine's infidelities and Tillyard's moral and religious obsessions,
171-583: The Grahams' marriage broke down irretrievably following her brief but influential foray into esotericism under the guidance of occultist Aleister Crowley in 1913. Her compulsion to reveal marital discord and her own extramarital relationships in anthologies published in 1910, 1913 and 1916 also contributed to the failure of her marriage. The Grahams divorced in 1921. Constantine's consular career kept him abroad thereafter until his death in Berlin in 1934. Unlike her former husband, Tillyard never remarried but continued
190-1312: The Great (d. 929) Elftrude, daughter of Adele of Vermandois and Arnulf I, Count of Flanders (10th century) Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar , king of England, mother of Ethelred the Unready (d. 1000) Modern [ edit ] Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929), Swedish organist, composer and conductor Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884–1970), American author and poet Elfriede Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924–2007), Austrian-born singer, pianist and film producer Elfriede Elfi Eder (born 1970), Austrian former alpine skier Elfriede Florin (1912–2006), German actress Elfriede Geiringer (1905–1998), Austrian Holocaust survivor, second wife of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank Elfriede Gerstl (1932–2009), Austrian author and Holocaust survivor Elfriede Elfi Graf (born 1964), Austrian singer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), Austrian playwright, 2004 Nobel laureate in Literature Elfriede Lender (1882–1974), Estonian teacher and pedagogue Elfrida Pigou (1911–1960), Canadian mountaineer Elfrida Rathbone (1871–1940), English educationist Elfriede Rinkel (nee Huth) (1922–2018), guard at
209-651: The Higher Local Examination after attending lectures for women in Cambridge . Tillyard had three brothers, one of whom predeceased her: Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard (1881–1968), classicist and expert in Byzantine musicology; Conrad Francis Wetenhall Tillyard (1885–1888); and Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard (1889–1961), active in English literary studies and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge . Events surrounding
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#1732876053105228-718: The Middle Ages and was revived in the 19th century in both England and Germany. Although some of its modern forms like Alfieda can be mistaken for feminine versions of Alfred , that derives from Ælfræd ('elf-counsel' or 'wise-elf'). The Southern German diminutive Friedel or Friedl is nowadays more common than the full name. Medieval [ edit ] Saint Ælfflæd of Whitby , daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd , abbess of Whitby Abbey (654–714) Saint Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 795) Ælfthryth , wife of King Coenwulf of Mercia ( fl. 810s) Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders , daughter of King Alfred
247-730: The Ravensbrück concentration camp Elfriede Saarik (1916–1983), Estonian dancer and stage actress Elfriede Scholz (1903–1943), German victim of Nazi persecution, sister of author Erich Maria Remarque Alfreda "Freda" Simmonds (1912–1983), New Zealand artist Elfriede Trötschel (1913–1958), German soprano Elfriede Tungl (1922–1981) Austrian civil engineer. Elfrida Vipont , pen name of Elfrida Vipont Foulds (1902–1992), British author of children's books See also [ edit ] Aelfrida Tillyard (1883-1959), British author, medium and self-styled mystic [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
266-456: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elfrida_(disambiguation)&oldid=950200730 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aelfrida Tillyard Aelfrida Catharine Wetenhall Tillyard (5 October 1883 – 12 December 1959)
285-440: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elfriede&oldid=1235855744 " Categories : Given names English given names German feminine given names Feminine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
304-550: The teaching career envisaged by her parents. During her stormy adolescence, Tillyard underwent several mystico-religious experiences as a result of which she decided to dedicate her life to God's service. Bizarre manifestations of her dedication persuaded her parents that marriage was the only means of normalising her. On 19 January 1907 Tillyard reluctantly married Greco-American Constantine Cleanthes Graham (born Michaelides); they had two daughters, Elizabeth Mary Alethea in 1908 and Aelfrida Catharine Agatha in 1910. From 1907 until 1914
323-581: The untimely death of Conrad Francis traumatised Tillyard so deeply that her personality became severely dysfunctional. Unable to tolerate formal schooling, she was educated privately by Cambridge lecturers until 1900, after which she spent a year in Switzerland and several months in Florence to perfect her already-fluent French and Latin. She subsequently taught languages at Cambridge schools, but she wanted to write. A breakdown in her physical and mental health ended
342-407: Was a British author , medium , lecturer on Comparative Religion and associated religious topics, spiritual advisor and self-styled mystic. Tillyard was born in Cambridge as the second child and only daughter of local newspaper proprietor/editor Alfred Isaac Tillyard MA and his wife Catharine Sarah née Wetenhall, proponent of higher education for women. Her mother was one of the first women to take
361-418: Was nevertheless dismayed when her daughters abandoned her, Alethea by becoming a nun and missionary, Agatha by suicide. In pursuit of her 'closer walk with God' Tillyard also became an Anglo-Catholic and (briefly) an extern oblate of St Mary's Abbey , West Malling, Kent. Tillyard wrote two science fiction novels articulating her conservative political views. Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence (1930)
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