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Mrs Max -In Her Letters

on BBC Radio 3

by Mary M. Lago
Reader MARGARET ROBERTSON
In 1910 Max Beerbohm married Florence Kahn a young actress from Memphis, Tennessee, a marriage that lasted until her death in 1951. Florence's character and her role in Max's life seems to have puzzled some of his contemporaries, and subsequently his biographers. It was assumed that her letters to Max were lost. In the process of editing Max's correspondence with Sir William Rothenstein , Dr Lago found that many of them had in fact survived. followed by an interlude

Contributors

Reader:
Mary M. Lago
Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Unknown:
Florence Kahn
Unknown:
William Rothenstein

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