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Louisa Young
A Great Task of
Happiness
THE LIFE OF KATHLEEN SCOTT
For her descendants
Wayland and Peter; Easter, Emily, Mopsa, Thoby and Zoe;
Nicola, Falcon and Dafila; Alice and Remel, Louis and Theo; Arthur; Joe, Lily
and Tom; Maud, Archie and Tolly; Emily, Dan, Lucy-Kate and Ben;
Freddie and Helena; Lucy; Peter and Amber;
and my Isabel.
And unto the next generation...
‘If I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness...’
From The Celestial Surgeon by Robert Louis Stevenson
Contents
One Motherless Daughter, Victorian Child
Three A Badly Dressed Virginal Anglaise in Paris
Seven Frighteningly in Love with Captain Scott
Eight Darling I Will be Good When We’re Married
Eleven At Opposite Ends of the Earth
Seventeen Second Husband, Second Son
Nineteen The Second War and the End
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